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BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization (rys.io)

submitted 2 years ago by rysiek@szmer.info to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Almost exactly six months after Twitter got taken over by a petulant edge lord, people seem to be done with grieving the communities this disrupted and connections they lost, and are ready, eager even, to jump head-first into another toxic relationship. This time with BlueSky.

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[–] heady@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

AP does push the data load onto volunteers (the operators of servers) but those volunteers gain some autonomy in doing so. The important part of that quoted segment is that bluesky has distributed the costs but not the authority, in other words taxation without representation.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Hm. I should probably read the spec, but I'm having a hard time getting motivated.

I've been quite disappointed with AP, and especially the Mastodon, community. Nostr content is slightly better, if you can avoid the worst of the Bitcoin spam brigade, but the protocol is vastly more interesting.

Given the overwhelming dominance of AT by Bluesky, I think I'll wait until it's evident they have no more influence than anyone else, before I invest any effort into it. I feel as if it's otherwise going to end up like AP, with the 900lb gorilla calling the shots and everyone else trying to play catch-up.

https://gts.superseriousbusiness.org/@gotosocial/statuses/01GZEBDK1JGTNJZ8SCPXA274RY

[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 1 points 2 years ago

It's not exactly clear to me, however, how important this second layer controlled by BlueSky is. Anyone could likewise build an indexing and searching layer on top of ActivityPub (I'm sure someone already has).

If BlueSky's first layer is truly decentralized like ActivityPub, instances have at least some comparable amount of control, no?