Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem
MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoBluesky 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.
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Not strictly speaking. The protocol supports did:web as well as did:plc