Could someone please explain to me whether Bluesky is decentralized?

[otfrom@functional.cafe]

@cwebber it could easily be decentralised with a bit of funding from someone like Thiel or Musk. Nothing a bit of VC or advertising can't fix /s

[cwebber@social.coop]

@otfrom they could fix a lot of things I bet

someone should get DOGE in to fix up the protocols maybe

[falken@qoto.org]

@cwebber in theory it is. In practice one company runs all the servers, and it's not practical to run own due to storage cost and huge rate of increase

[cwebber@social.coop]

@falken really is that true? how expensive would it be

[morix@loci.onl]

@cwebber if we ask around we can probably find a few others in other countries even, all the people there can't be bots on my computers right?

[cwebber@social.coop]

@morix there have to be some fediverse chicks on here somewhere

[janbeta@chaos.social]

@cwebber Many of its users are in different places, thus totally decentralized!

[lobingera@chaos.social]

@cwebber @phillycodehound

... i see on the horizon a talk at the 39C3 "Make decentralization less boring again" ...

[cwebber@social.coop]

If you are also on Blue Sky, I am asking over there, feel free to help spread the word here or there https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dyyvywontyeuaegemczcushz/post/3lmwkq433ec2x

We will get to the bottom of this

[Gæst]

@dpk @cwebber @lgsp I make all my decisions about content quality based on the amount of CSS and JS wrapped around it.

[cwebber@social.coop]

@lobingera @phillycodehound Don't Meme MAGA Again

[Gæst]

@cwebber You ovbiously havnet researcht this very carfully, I believe one Lemmy Webster has written alot about this and you really should read up before asking dumb quetions maybe the internet is not for you.

(Note to onlookers: this post is intended to be humorously satirical. Please laugh politely. Thank you.)

[cwebber@social.coop]

@woozle is the webbing to catch the lemmings

[Gæst]

@cwebber@social.coop technically one might say it isn't, but that would be besides the point. You see "centralized" is only bad if it's centralized around bad people like Ramk Zuckembrog or Melon Sumk. But as long as it's centralized around nice people with a good moral compass who respect the law and have all the best intentions it's actually as good as, no! It's better than decentralized! And since it has only the best woke VCs backing it who have business plans with a goal for human societal prosperity and not RoI, we need not ask about decentralization.

[mhoye@mastodon.social]

@vmstan @dpk @cwebber @lgsp

If you see bare <h1> in the tags you know you’re in the right place.

[eject@queer.garden]

@cwebber they're going to use SMTP

[shadowwwind@fosstodon.org]

@cwebber no but if they add Twitters hexagon cryptobro profile pictures it will become decentralized

[cwebber@social.coop]

@shadowwwind oh I guess they should add them then

[brownpau@mastodon.social]

@cwebber bluesky is B-centralized, that is to say your node is best physically hosted in a hive of bees, so you can get the two B’s: Bad posts and Best honey

[mav@masto.hackers.town]

@cwebber
Yes.

But also no.

Maybe?

*bites into breakfast apple*
*chews pensively*