@benpate

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.

@benpate that said, I was doing some data analysis on fedidb last night, and about 50% of Fediverse users are on the top 10 servers, so it wouldn't take a lot of work to really cut down on the addressable accounts.

@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.

@benpate they could do it for me, as a favour

@benpate the reason I ask is that I wonder how well ATProto federation works across borders when there's this kind of lockdown.

@evan that would be hilarious, but I don’t think the Russians are into him much anymore

@jaz @benpate yeah, absolutely. I think other people who run public servers may have the same concerns. I have a lot less concern with my colleagues at SWF, for example, or my family on prodromou.pub.

@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.

@jaz @benpate I thought you were concerned from the other direction, as a server operator.

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