@MeiselZachary federation means multiple different services that interoperate; the team has said one of their design goals is for it to be easy to leave a server and take your identity, social graph, and content with you - including against the wishes of the server owner. No bans.
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Reply · Apr 26, 2023yeah... I hope they do this w AT Protocol tech - the ability for users to pick up their identity & content & social graph and move to a federated…Reply · Apr 28, 2023yeah and the goal is portability so you can pick up your posts n social graph n identity (DID at least, domain if you use your own) and move without…Reply · Sep 4, 2023@MeiselZachary this blog by the team explains it better than I can in a tweet https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architectureReply · Jul 5, 2023@twofifteenam yep, kinda wish bluesky had prioritized identity & federation over the feeds & mod tooling... I like open protocol social graph, DIDs,…