Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem
jonne@infosec.pub 3 weeks agoBluesky is supposedly working on decentralisation, but yeah, I agree, especially since Mastodon is already there. Normies are just somehow very turned off by too much Linux talk, even though free software is part of the answer to keeping our society free and stopping monopolies from forming.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Even if bluesky somehow finishes decentralization its still fundamentally incompatible with the fediverse. In addition I doubt that itll become truly open source.
MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Bluesky will never be fully decentralized. The DID needs a central authority like DNS. Its architecture is distributed though.
Ideally the DID stuff is put into a foundation, and once the open source the other components anyone who can handle the fire hose can join.
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
unless i’m missing something, activitypub also needs a centralized authority like dns. That’s just how domain names work
Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
“Like DNS” there is an analogy. And DNS is actually a distributed system.
Imagine if every web DNS had to go through Facebook. That’s how all of the ATproto traffic works. It’s all funneled through Bluesky’s servers.
jonne@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I mean, if they can somehow come up with something better than activitypub, that would be great, from what I read it’s actually not that efficient. But yeah, decentralisation is not something you can just tack on, so I’m sceptical too, especially since they’re trying to raise VC money, which is not something you do when you want to build an open protocol.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Decentralization is inherently inefficient. Efficiency is a double-edged sword, though. One which our modern, business focused culture actively tries to ignore the self-facing blade of.