Good read. We’re seeing a return to “social” networks. The big platforms haven’t been social for years.

portable identity

So like when bluesky starts having to pay back their investors I can portable my identity to… one of the other blueskies out there?

I’m always shocked by the number of of BlueSky fans that show up on Lemmy. If they don’t care about centralization why are they here and not on Reddit?

I do! Thanks for the information it is another piece of evidence as to the sketchiness

I never see people call Bluesky decentralised.

I find that surprising, because BlueSky uses that term: https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web

Jay Graeber herself described it as such.

Here is the Verge calling it decentralized: https://www.theverge.com/23686778/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-interview-decentralized-social-media-twitter-mastodon

Here is NYT calling it decentralized: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/technology/bluesky-x-alternative.html

Here is CNN calling decentralized: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/28/tech/bluesky-social/

The tech press is talking to your normie friends?

Because, despite being wildly impractical, it’s technically built on tech that COULD be decentralized.

Yes exactly, it reminds me of the logic of cryptocurrency boosters. I just found out that the bluesky CEO (not to mention jack dorsey) are both crypto advocates so it makes a lot more sense now.

As I brought up in the title of my post, she’s currently the highest level role at a morally questionable company. She has a pattern of behavior of working at morally questionable companies.

Because the claims of people involved with cryptocurrency are historically very untrustworthy, that’s why.

The thing that got me interested is that BlueSky says it’s “decentralized” but the more I look into it, it’s only “decentralized” using a very narrow, highly technical definition of the term “decentralized”.

Cryptocurrency is the same. People with a financial stake in cryptocurrency often say it is “decentralized” but it’s only true if you accept their extremely narrow definitions of what that word means.

A PDS still requires BlueSky’s servers

I don’t understand it at all. Where are all the supposed blueskys? It’s so easy to fact check.

I’m moreso curious if it federated in a literal sense. Is it even possible to participate without using bsky.app’s servers?

OK so it sounds like there is still just the single BlueSky that is “federated” with a handful of single-user BlueSkies?

Wait, there are 1600 BlueSky instances to join? Are they counting people using a custom domain name as an entire instance?

“Chat app” like texting/whatsapp?

Or “chat app” like Discord/Slack?

For the former, Signal is going to be the one your friends and family will actually use. For the latter there isn’t anything really approaching the same level yet. Matrix/Element is making a good effort but absolutely not there yet, especially on mobile.

This is actually really funny

XKCD 2501 applies in this thread.

OP, get CasaOS or Yunohost. Very very simple. Your laptop is fine (you’ll probably want to upgrade the ram soon).

Yunohost is great, Portainer is also useful.

/r/im14andthisisdeep

idk OP… this is a lot more effort than I put into things idgaf about.