How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
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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.

This article was shared on Mastodon via its author here.

  • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
    16·
    17 hours ago

    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.

    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
      81·
      16 hours ago

      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.

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
        91·
        15 hours 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