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          "alt": "Hard Decentralization\n\nHard decentralization refers to the emergence of a resilient and multi-stakeholder Atmosphere that relies less on Bluesky PBC’s existence. There's some overlap with the other two goals here. Improving things like sync make it easier to run alternate infrastructure like Relays and Appviews, and our governance work should help build confidence that the protocol is a genuine public good that’s larger than Bluesky.\n\nTo support the goal of hard decentralization, we're also tackling some specific technical challenges.\nImproving Non-Bluesky PDS Hosting\n\nThe decentralization guarantees of AT come from the locked-open substrate of data hosted by Personal Data Servers (PDSes). One of our current goals to increase the resilience of the network is to encourage more non-Bluesky PDS hosting.\n\nWe recently enabled account migration back to bsky.social. We hope this will give users the confidence to experiment with other hosts in the network, knowing they can always migrate back if they need to. Already we’re seeing an uptick in users posting from non-Bluesky PDSes.\n\nSome developers in the network have launched account migration tools that make it easier for non-technical users to migrate between hosts. Examples include PDS MOOver and Tektite. We believe that the next step is to introduce an account migration UI into the PDS itself.\n\nWe also intend to make running a PDS more approachable for mid-size hosts. This includes adding auto-scaling rate limits to the Relay reference implementation so that hosts can scale up organically without needing permission or approval. We’re also looking at ways to improve the PDS distribution to make it easier to run and administer with thousands of users.",
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          "alt": "Alternate Infrastructure\n\nWe’re excited to see that more and more devs are experimenting with running alternate infrastructure in the network. Blacksky currently runs a full-network relay (using the rksy-relay implementation!), and is working on a full-network Bluesky appview. Futur showed us all that it was possible with Zeppelin, a full network appview that is now decommissioned. And Red Dwarf is a new Bluesky client that doesn’t use an Appview but rather drives the experience via direct calls to the PDS and generic indices provided by Microcosm.\n\nPlease reach out to us if you’re working on running alternate infrastructure. We’re eager to lend a hand.",
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  "text": "Blacksky Algorithms == Hard Decentralization."
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