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“Bluesky is called a decentralized network and uses the term federation. The problem is that their technology, from the point of view of power dynamics, is not decentralized at all,” emphasizes Christine Lemmer-Webber, an expert on decentralized social protocols. “The use of some decentralisation techniques, but the decentralized service itself is not today. There is one big company that controls the flow of information, and without which this network cannot operate at the moment.”

This does not mean that moving from X/Twitter to Bluesky is a bad idea. “I appreciate that Bluesky wants to build a service that can quickly fully replace Twitter. But I don’t think they should claim that this service is decentralized and instead focus on the date of a “trustworthy way”.

Source: https://oko.press/ucieczka-z-twittera-przyszlosc-mediow-spolecznosciowych

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

bluesky will eventually enshitify like reddit and twitter did and like all social media platforms with investors/financiers behind them always do. (reddit in particular promised not to enshitify at the beginning just like bluesky is promising right now).

be ready to find a new social platform like you had to do with reddit in another 4 to 9 years if you go with bluesky.

even bluesky's original creator already left bluesky because of the enshitification and created nostr instead to compete with it.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Guys I'm starting to think these corporations are just in it for the money, and that the money is fundamentally at odds with the user experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Now can you convince the masses?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

until there's a star trek like cultural and social sea change; only money can convince the masses