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How decentralized is Bluesky really? (dustycloud.org)
submitted 6 days 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] 97 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's not.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days 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 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

but even if you wanted to run that, you cant because they wont release the software or interact with foreign relays.

they dont even let you choose to grab the 4.8tb which is <10% of my home storage

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It's in the article.