alt Hacker News> There's no seam between servers.
This is false, if we're to believe it's possible to exist outside the moderation control of Bluesky corp.
It's also false today while everyone is still on the same "instance" - e.g. ICE joining Bluesky and being verified is making waves... apparently being _that_ is not enough to violate Big Blue's community guidelines.
If you run a separate appview, bluesky can't censor your interactions in any way, and you can seamlessly view posts from both bluesky users and users banned on bluesky.
Of course, running an appview that indexes the whole world is expensive, and running an appview that doesn't index the whole world is less convenient than just using bluesky's appview, so the only people running an independent appview right now are blacksky.community. It isn't stable yet, but it works, and there are active users who are banned on bluesky: https://staging.blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:63hvnyjvq....
I'm optimistic that running independent appviews (especially appviews that index content lazily, on demand) will get easier in future.