Bluesky Is Not Decentralized

Posted by pabs3 10/26/2024

Bluesky Is Not Decentralized(beige.party)

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udev4096 10/26/2024|

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benreesman 10/26/2024||

It’s hard to imagine any upper bound on broken or useless or corrupt that would invalidate one more news feed.

The gates are open on Google Search shaping your information, on Meta shaping your fashion, on Amazon shaping your commercial instinct.

And on YC boosting tired legacies around AirBnB rather than contemporary realities like Garry “Die Motherfucker” Tan pimping Pear “ChatGPT that license” shit on X.

I’ve had a beer with Zuckerberg and one with Dorsey, I say it can’t get any worse.

blitzar 10/26/2024||

Still waiting for my day 1 request to be considered for membership to come through. Don't think I made the cut.

paulgb 10/26/2024|

You can just sign up now, you don’t need an invite.

blitzar 10/26/2024||

Its ok, they have my details. I am sure they will let me know when it is time.

pfraze 10/26/2024||

I personally and formally invite you to join. Im sure your original invite got lost in the mail.

Fwiw the invites were really just to manage scale. We weren’t ready yet and demand was high. We weren’t trying to exclude people

dredds 10/26/2024||

A reservation queue would have worked just as well. (first in first served) The invite system sets up existing hierarchy of insiders and outsiders from the get-go, favoring the already popular, and creating a wall for new (single) users perhaps not in the hot geolocations where invites get handed out in bulk. It actually excludes people who are already struggling to socialize, and rewards those who have all the 'right connections'.

pfraze 10/26/2024||

We did both. I don’t know why the invite didn’t reach their email

threeseed 10/26/2024||

Not sure how it is better than Threads.

At least Meta is delivering on their promise to integrate with Mastodon and move us closer to decentralised social networks.

pfraze 10/26/2024||

Bluesky integrates with Mastodon better than Threads does at this point. I have bidirectional conversations with mastodon users, with notifications, using a bridge called BridgyFed. I can follow Mastodon users on Bluesky. I can’t with Threads.

maelito 10/26/2024||

How seamless is it ? Any daily problems ? Can you show a link to a conversation made this way ?

jamesmunns 10/26/2024||

I bridged my bluesky account, if you're on mastodon and want to talk to me here, you're welcome to. Not sure if you need to opt-in on the mastodon side to be bridged to bluesky.

@jamesmunns.com@bsky.brid.gy

I think you can opt-in here? https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/jamesmunns.com/followers

d1sxeyes 10/26/2024|||

I mean, Meta’s ActivityPub integration is one-way on public profiles. I think even Facebook used to allow you to get RSS feeds of your friends’ updates in the early days. Threads’s lip-service towards AP is barely better than that.

timeon 10/26/2024||

I have hard time believing Meta since both Facebook and Instagram are not open to public. But time will tell.

immibis 10/26/2024|

Glad this information is finally going mainstream. BlueSky users used to tell everyone it was more decentralized than Mastodon because of this DID thing.