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Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All (slate.com)

submitted 1 month ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One is a product with investors selling itself on promises of decentralization (bluesky), the other is a genuine community tool (mastodon) that actually provides decentralization.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bluesky is mit licensed, if it goes bad what's to stop a fork? Once there's interop between the protocols will it matter at all?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are a million ways open platforms can be undermined, especially when serious money stands to be gained from it. See basically all of human history as exhibit A...

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you give a specific example of how bluesky could be?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

yes, see this thread

https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113487613965056474

"#BlueSky isn't decentralised or federated. The outage yesterday is the obvious proof. It may look decentralised and they definitely love to outsource traffic and storage costs by claiming that running your own PDS (Personal Data Server) is somehow something federated, but that's all smoke and mirrors. You have to go deep on [1] to find "networking through Relays instead of server-to-server" as their current implementation choice. THEY run the relays. No one else."

[–] preston@possumpat.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can run your own relay, though:

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/entries/Notes%20on%20Running%20a%20Full-Network%20atproto%20Relay%20(July%202024)

I do prefer Activitypub overall, and it's certainly more mature, but any efforts towards decentralization should be encouraged/celebrated.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

You can run your own relay, in that sense the "body" of bluesky is when considered in the abstract potentially decentralized... but when you consider the "brain" of bluesky nodes and the layer of moderation and post/commenting is still locked into a centralized system it is a bit like arguing borg drones have free will because they are physically individual beings.

Or it is like arguing an ant isn't existentially dependent upon the structure of the ant colony to survive since each ant posesses an individual body with its own six legs.

[–] dan@upvote.au 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not 100% sure but I don't think anything would stop either a fork or a new app that uses the same protocol.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 0 points 1 month ago

I really don't see how it could matter tbh

I think lemmy should get atproto support too.