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James R Kirk
James R Kirk @ Kirk @startrek.website
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Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • Don't let them distract with with the "whattabout matrix". The Matrix Foundation is not a social media company, and furthermore it's a nonprofit.

    • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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    • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • You are correct. The term is called "openwashing". Now and then bluesky employees cultists will come on Lemmy and mastodon and try to LARP that their for-profit company has our best interests in mind.

    • What Reddit has become lately...

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  • "[deleted]" means a user removed it. It's probably users who nuked their accounts (I'm one of them!)

    • Banksy's latest piece has already been shut down - because it's about Palestine

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  • In case anyone else was wondering, "shut down" here means someone put some metal over it and hired two airline pilots security guards to watch over.

    • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • BlueSky is centralized.

    • Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol

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  • It comes from this 2019 post by Mike Masnick.

    Unfortunately the atprotocol is more like Profits > People > Platforms

    • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • Absolutely I was not trying to take away from your point! Cory Doctorow actually recently wrote a good piece on Wikipedia that you reminded me of.

    • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • I agree with your overall point, but Wikipedia has a singular mission. Social settings can have wildy different missions from shitposting, to hobbies, study groups, to support groups, etc. There is no singular moderation ethos that can apply to all of them, that's why decentralization is important in social media.

    We want to algorithms to work for the people, not have people slaving for the algorithms.

    • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • If a grandmother had wheels would you consider her to be a wagon?

    • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • No, please respond to the gif. If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a wagon?

    BlueSky is centralized. Describing it as "federated" is being (intentionally, in your case) misleading.

    • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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    • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • ok and bluesky is literally centralized

    • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • More avoidance. You astroturfing?

    • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • I'm sorry your credibility is at zero with me. You keep avoiding the point.

    • The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired

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  • I don't understand, $600M? Is anyone using this browser?

    • Pocket Casts is getting ads

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  • Nothing big is wrong with them, the drama got blown way out of proportion to a frankly insane degree.

    • reddit has seriously turned into facebook levels of bare minumum / advertiser friendly front page

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  • My rule of thumb is to delete any service with "inserted content" I'm unable to block

    • Fedora 44 Change Proposal Aims To Ensure A Nice Wine/Proton + NTSYNC Experience

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  • Bazzite is based on Fedora no? This could be very cool

    • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • We're counting hypotheticals as real now? I suppose your not-hypothetical girlfriend goes to another school too, right? Just not motivated to visit?

    As you're no doubt aware, the reason 99.9% of bluesky users are on a single server is obviously not because "nobody is motivated" to create other servers.