"How decentralized is Bluesky really?" by Christine Lemmer-Webber
"How decentralized is Bluesky really?" by Christine Lemmer-Webber
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How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
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Oh damn, that's a lot of cross-posts. I didn't know this had already been posted so many times before.
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Yeah its a great read that people enjoyed a lot.
One of the best parts is where she explains that bluesky cant scale down. You can run an activitypub server on a literal potato by design, but bluesky can't ever be decoupled from it's "eye of god" central architecture. The best case scenario for atproto federation is wikipedia or the Internet archive hosting a competing federated instance, but neither have stepped into that "millions/month" role.
I think the head technical lead at bluesky responded in a very respectful and technical way and did cop to some limitatoons why highlighting blueskys strengths. That reply is here.
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Thank you so much for the additional context!
I've never felt inclined to regard bluesky with hostility, but definitely wouldn't call myself a fan; honestly that was a really thoughtful reply and improved my impression of bluesky as a platform
I hope they can avoid the pitfalls of venture capital funding and build a platform that doesn't suck, even if mastodon will be my microblogging home on the internet :)
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A second good read is her follow-up/response post: Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization
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Bears repeating: it's not.
Yes, and it's inherently designed not to be.
But it also bears repeating that decentralization by itself has no advantage, either.
Could you expand on that?
🐻 "it's not. it's not. it's not. ..."
🐻 "it's not. it's not. it's not. ..."
🐻 "it's not. it's not. it's not. ..."
/j