I doubt it would get shutdown, all the communities there would have to shut down.

So, are all the posts and stuff on your instance gone?

Were you able to migrate the DB?

join.piefed.social has a list somewhere.

Piefed being written in python means nothing.
Instagram and threads (and parts of the clusterfuck that is facebook) are written in python and seem to have scaled fine.

Performance is negligable – the main bottleneck is I/O.
If a new python release breaks compatibility, Piefed can keep using the old version of python.

But python isn’t the webs scripting engine. If it was, browsers would have support for python3 and 2.

• being able to move communities.

too heavily promoted of late to be believeably organic

No. Its promoted because of its fast development and extra features.

Piefed is decentralised itself.

i wouldn’t say they invented the threadiverse, groups have existed on the fediverse since diaspora, but they certainly popularised it.

Diversifying the amount of software in any network is always a good thing though.

That looks amazing actually.

I love the GNOME/libadiwata apps.

Its great for nerds.

Did they drop it in the salt lake?

Somewhere on the web. I think it was on a CD or it was a background.

There’s an (official) version of the ubuntu logo with butts somewhere

lemmy.ml.

You can unlock the bootloader of almost any phone in the EU.

Now, there will be literally no custom firmware for it, but its still possible.

That’s why I said small ones, they don’t crawl the entire network.

There is the freeourfeeds one coming soon.

If bsky goes out of business and shuts down their servers, will these continue to function?

Yes, but there will be far less people since everyone’s on bsky.social. Kinda like mastodon.social.

Does bsky still have any control at all over moderation?

Great question! Bluesky has individual moderation services you can subscribe to, and these hide/label posts for you.
bsky has no control over moderation if you are not on their servers, and you are not subscribed to their moderation service.

There’s a good few small ones.

It can work without relays anyway, an appview can crawl PDSes directly.

So, bluesky works differently to fedi.

A PDS stores your posts/comments/likes/blocks/articles/whatever. These all get crawled and saved to a relay.
An appview connects to a relay and sorts through all the posts, and indexes them.
They handle all the interactions, rather than passing messages between servers.

Thats completely untrue :) .

app.wafrn.net is a separate app that connects to bluesky, atproto.africa is an alternate relay, deer.social is an alt appview.

You can use bluesky without relying on bluesky now.