filtering visibility of accounts based on their current PDS hosting location is something we talked about early in the atproto network design process, and we decided against it.
it is similar to broad-stroke defederation dynamics from the fediverse, and I personally think is an anti-pattern
bryan newbold
npub12e…rlrpy
2026-08-23 19:44:54 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…yy4y
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