“Bluesky is called a decentralized network and uses the term federation. The problem is that their technology, from the point of view of power dynamics, is not decentralized at all,” emphasizes Christine Lemmer-Webber, an expert on decentralized social protocols. “The use of some decentralisation techniques, but the decentralized service itself is not today. There is one big company that controls the flow of information, and without which this network cannot operate at the moment.”
This does not mean that moving from X/Twitter to Bluesky is a bad idea. “I appreciate that Bluesky wants to build a service that can quickly fully replace Twitter. But I don’t think they should claim that this service is decentralized and instead focus on the date of a “trustworthy way”.
Source: https://oko.press/ucieczka-z-twittera-przyszlosc-mediow-spolecznosciowych
@[email protected] @[email protected] there’s absolutely more to being decentralized than just using “decentralization techniques”. Those techniques just mean it could be decentralized in theory but isn’t at all in practice. At least not for now.
It’s like saying your service is “decentralized” even though you run and control it all because you use load-balancing with your web servers.
@vetehinen
It would be like that except they don’t run and control it. It is released into the wild.
@sabreW4K3
@[email protected] @[email protected] that’s just not true at all. Everyone has to use their appview and their relays to take part in it.