Could someone please explain to me whether Bluesky is decentralized?

mav@masto.hackers.town

But also no.

Maybe?

*bites into breakfast apple*
*chews pensively*

aires@tiggi.es

@cwebber No, but you can centralize clouds, which is why it's called The Cloud

spacehobo@teh.entar.net

@cwebber It's decentralised in that the moderation of user accounts is distributed across all legal jurisdictions in the Global North.

cwebber@social.coop

@brownpau Is that why they're under a B-corp

adriano@lile.cl

@cwebber If you look closely, you'll see that it's not centralized, it's skewed slightly off-center to the right and up. Typical measurement mistake.

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@cwebber

As I understand it:

ATProto is built to be decentralized. Right now, Bluesky is a company that both originated the protocol and is building a platform on it, so the impact is that it is functionally centralized as there is only one implementation on only one platform.

But if someone else built an ATProto implementation then it would no longer be only Bluesky, and then it would be decentralized.

Again, as I understand it.

cwebber@social.coop

@quintessence we just need two then

jorgecandeias@mastodon.social

@cwebber why do you do this to yourself?

cwebber@social.coop

@jorgecandeias do what

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@cwebber

Correct +

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@cwebber

As you may know, having no doubt researched the long history of your family name, a "lemmer" was traditionally someone who worked with lemmings -- most often the trainer in charge of herding them over cliffs to enable dramatic footage for Disney nature "documentaries".

With the passage of time, this practice came to be seen as cruel and inhumane, and agencies dedicated to the preservation of wildlife began training workers to gently and safely capture the lemmers in web-netting and return them to their native habitats -- thus creating the role of "lemmer webber".

(In those days, of course, many individuals were known by their given name plus their role in society; as formal recordkeeping became more ubiquitous, however, these surnames became detached from social roles and were simply inherited. It is thus possible now for, e.g., a person with the last name "Webber" -- in olden times most commonly used for those who created web content or wrote web software -- to be in a profession which has nothing at all to do with the World Wide Web.)

This important part of our natural history is rarely mentioned and yet is essential to an understanding of how we have become a more humane society (until this year, anyway, but that's another story).

#SplainingAsAService #LowQualityFacts

rcriii@hostux.social

@cwebber not so much de- as re-centralized. you see bluesky started when a bunch of people were on a plane going to a blues fest and texting each other. Later they decided to create a place to share their wit and bon mots with the world.