• melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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    19 hours ago

    Told people already it’s not as decentralized as people might believe or has being told to them. I will never join Bluesky.

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      12 hours ago

      Did anyone actually think it would be? It just had to be not Twitter. Mastodon would’ve been awesome but apparently the barrier for entry was more than the average person willing to accept.

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        4 hours ago

        Yes a lot of people went away from Mastodon to Bluesky, thinking indeed it was open source and decentralized. Jack Dorsey is selling BlueSky like that. Also various media outlets are saying: “Is Bluesky decentralized? Yes.”

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      16 hours ago

      Gonna be real, microblogging is never gonna really work with decentralization. It barely works when centralized. It’s isolating by nature, and only really amplifies the voices that are already the loudest, and the introduction of separate servers and federation delays only make those problems worse.

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      16 hours ago

      Decentralization is is unobtainable. You have to have a source of truth. DNS has shown us the way, everyone else is fucking around.

      Gotta have a trusted org to manage identities.

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        15 hours ago

        Yesn’t. Yes we have DNS, which is bad enough. But the internet itself was build to be resistant and distributed. DNS is distributed, but not decentralized. However, decentralized protocols (read BitTorrent protocols, etc.) do exist, and does make it more decentralized. Without the need of DNS.

        I’m never doing to trust a single org or group to control a large group of users/people or projects. Never.

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        13 hours ago

        You can spin up your own instance to ensure you have a custom username suffix. That’s literally all anyone needs to distinguish themselves from fake accounts. Trusting any org to remain a neutral authority is a mistake and a bigger risk than getting users to agree on an accurate source based on a suffix.