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How decentralized is Bluesky really? (dustycloud.org)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a pretty great, long form post about the structure of Bluesky, and how it's largely kinda pretending to be decentralized at the moment. I'm not trying to make a dig at it. I've enjoyed the platform myself for a while, but it's good to learn more about how it actually works.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

No decentralization atm.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Thats not really what happens, unless you're so toxic that old-twitter would actually ban you.

Bsky has a "nuclear block", that essentially removes you and the target from even existing on the version of the site each other see. If you're ok with just talking to folk who are on your side of a "no, shutup" line, like "trans women are women" or "trans is a mental disorder" you'll be fine.

The issue is that a bunch of folk who abscribe to the second apparently just want to troll the first, so they get blocked by their targets, have no fun, and then complain to reporters still on twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

if there is, I haven't seen any. ive been using it quite a bit. its probably like most social media where if you don't engage with that kind of content, it doesn't show it to you.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not even sure it can, unless they want to pay server operators. Who would do that for free for a for-profit company? And if they're ultimately supported by the top, they're still centralized.

Not that it's super expensive to run a server, but it ain't free; at least in a place like the Fediverse, every transaction is voluntary all the way down to the financial support, because any part may choose to participate or leave as they see fit.

I don't see how BlueSky can replicate that and still chase profit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I thought I read something that said one of the servers or services or something was already like 4.8 terabytes and growing by the day.

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