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Well, actually, kinda, yeah, close to what happened. It's not for nothing that Jack Dorsey, who started the place and was on its board, basically ran away when the trans folks and furries scared off all the crypto bros he assumed would be the natural demographic here (they went to Nostr instead).

For the record I think the architecture stuff is cool and also what eventually will flummox any attempt to make Bluesky more fascist-friendly, since if Bluesky runs that direction people can (theoretically) decamp to federated services (relatively) painlessly and keep going like nothing happened.

Just out of curiosity, and me having no clue about the thing you talked about: So you can transfer your account to European servers, but you still are using Bluesky like I do now, or is that a totally different thing?

No that's exactly what is. The plan is to eventually also host a bluesky backend in the EU as well, but you can already host your account there.

It’s already here (as web app, phone app is under development): mu.social

But it still will be one platform on the surface? Just a little bit safer in case one country goes against it, turns off the bluesky servers?

Yes exactly; everything gets moved across to different hardware and so to a different jurisdiction but the platform is unchanged, my username is unchanged, my posting history is still intact, it’s all done behind the scenes and is seamless and invisible as far as anyone following me is concerned.

This sounds great, Chris. Excuse my total ignorance but: how do I actually do this??

Is it an easy transfer when using your own domain Chris?