• Emi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    When your platform advertises itself as decentralized, and a simple “host bluesky instance” search results in articles telling you to join the main instance’s waiting list… that sounds too stupid for me to give them the time of day.

    I am surprised anyone uses or takes them seriously.

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      1 year ago

      Bluesky is still in beta. It’s intentionally not open to the general public because federation hasn’t yet been opened up and they only have one instance running.

      The nice thing about Bluesky’s architecture (over ActivityPub) is the fact your content and identity is portable. So you can move over to a different instance as they start to come online.

      I think the important takeaway from articles like this is the fundamental misunderstanding of decentralized social protocols. It shouldn’t be on one central authority how things are moderated globally. These kinds of articles kind of prove the point.

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          1 year ago

          Agreed. They definitely underestimated the motivation of the trolls. That’s why they’re fast tracking federation.

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        1 year ago

        You cite Bluesky account portability as an advantage over ActivityPub, but that’s not really accurate. Nothing in Bluesky is portable. There’s only one instance. There’s nowhere to port to. You can’t move anything.

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        1 year ago

        Any “Decentralized” Solution that is not F.O.S. free and opensource was never “Decentralized” at all.