Comment on Bluesky rolls out blue check verifications
0xtero@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I think at this point it’s pretty clear that BlueSky is in the traditional social media business instead of being in the decentralized social media business.
Maybe that’s a good decision for BlueSky, they certainly seem to have the growth at the moment, but I think we probably have to forget the dreams of it ever pushing the decentralization angle again.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I think that’s only because there are few, if any, bluesky instances
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
If not for the lack of decentralization, they’d be more decentralized.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Funny, but I haven’t heard of anyone starting new instances. Not sure why. Mastodon is more established?
Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 day ago
I don’t think anyone can host a relay right now aside from bluesky.
People can host their own data / Personal Data Server, which is somewhere between self-hosting a mastodon instance and creating an account on someone else’s instance. The actual equivalent would be self-hosting your masto account separately from any instance (which is just not a thing with the current state of mastodon nor activity pub).
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
i love that bluesky just keeps getting away with it like this
“oh well they said people can run their own instances, so that must be true!”
nope, you just can’t run a bluesky instance, can we please recognize this fact and stop giving the massive corporation the benefit of the doubt?
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 day ago
There is only one instance, which is the company’s because the company has not released the server software. It’s completely centralized.
jarfil@beehaw.org 1 day ago
It seems like both the data server (PDS) and the data aggregator (AppView) have been released:
github.com/bluesky-social/pds
What am I missing?
hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Well, then. That sucks