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This is a pretty great, long form post about the structure of Bluesky, and how it's largely kinda pretending to be decentralized at the moment. I'm not trying to make a dig at it. I've enjoyed the platform myself for a while, but it's good to learn more about how it actually works.

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[–] Patch@feddit.uk 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a really interesting read (and worth much more attention than the pithy one-liners of people who just want to read the title).

On reflection, I think my take away is that Bluesky will always by necessity of its design be hosted and controlled by a single centralised company. But what their architectural model does allow is the possibility of a wholesale migration from one centralised provider to another. That is, it would be possible for a suitably resourced and motivated company to host its own mirror Relay and other components and have essentially a fully functional Bluesky clone. In the event that Bluesky ever "does a Twitter" and go into terminal decline, in theory this might mean that a successor/competitor could emerge and take on the network without loss of existing content.

I'm not sure that'll ever actually happen, but it's an interesting thought.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting point, and shows that most likely, any instance of Bkuesky will eventually go Twitter

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

Not quite. Elon is a rather singular figure.