Still better than Twitter, but let's be honest
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Blog post by Christine Lemmer-Webber, co-editor of ActivityPub: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
The likely answer to this is that there will always have to be a large corporation at the heart of Bluesky/ATProto, and the network will have to rely on that corporation to do the work of abuse mitigation, particularly in terms of illegal content and spam. This may be a good enough solution for Bluesky’s purposes, but on the economics alone it’s going to be a centralized system that relies on trusting centralized authorities.
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Blog post by Christine Lemmer-Webber, co-editor of ActivityPub: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
The likely answer to this is that there will always have to be a large corporation at the heart of Bluesky/ATProto, and the network will have to rely on that corporation to do the work of abuse mitigation, particularly in terms of illegal content and spam. This may be a good enough solution for Bluesky’s purposes, but on the economics alone it’s going to be a centralized system that relies on trusting centralized authorities.
Just a note, a lot has changed since then: https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/34675fdb-40fa-4696-8a3c-40126d428681
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Just a note, a lot has changed since then: https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/34675fdb-40fa-4696-8a3c-40126d428681
irelephant@programming.dev and what exactly does “non-archival” mean anyway? How long is content stored for?
