@benpate this is interesting.
Is there a *Sky in Russia, like Eurosky, Gander, Blacksky or Northsky? (I should know what these are called. I think it's more than a PDS, but maybe that's the right word.)
Trot-sky would be a sick name, but I don't think the pun would translate well.
@benpate ActivityPub might work well in this case, but also badly. For example, if the Russian government blocked mastodon.social, the server-to-server data works on the same protocol and port number as the end-user interface and API.
But on the plus side, there are 40,000 other servers, so you'd still could stay connected to a big chunk of the Fediverse.
ATProto works differently, on another port I think. I think there's also some indirect ways to share data, although I don't know a lot about how ATProto works so I might be mistaken.
Different enough than what we know of fedi doesn’t apply.
Bsky is boats and fedi is trains
I think they could block access to the main relay of bsky, but someone else could host an appview and relay themselves and as long as your user isnt on the main bsky pds you’re fine
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