This, right there. What FOSS fans fail to understand is that some apps feel like a jigsaw to use for people less experienced in technology. Some people barely have an idea about how browser cookies work, and they are expected to understand the concept of manually picking up a server to create an account on, and you would still not be connected to everyone.
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B312@lemmy.world 1 year agoThat’s exactly the thing, mastodon has all of these nerd things attached to it that most people won’t care about, whilst BlueSky doesn’t
P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Yeah, Bluesky has both federation and ease of use, which is why many prefer it over Mastodon. Instead of making someone search for a server to join, Bluesky gives you a default server which makes it easier for less tech savvy users.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
bluesky does not have functional federation by any reasonable measure.
TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
It is currently early access, but should be opened to everyone later. There is also a bridge that links Bluesky and Mastadon.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
A bridge is a tool for connecting things don’t connect, it is not federation.
The relay layer/app view forces you under the control of a centralized, the only thing meaningful about that kind of federation is hosting costs for processing and storing post data are offloaded onto the user.
Which when you think about it is actually pretty fucking insulting to the fediverse and what is trying to be when bluesky pretends it is aiming for federation and decentralization.