i think the main takeaway is that the fediverse has hugely overindexed on relays being this big huge centralising force in the atproto network. And thats simply not true at all. The flipside of that is that relays also dont really matter much either. All they do is simply aggregating from a distributed network of data storage into a single firehose. Its really cool that you can do that for super cheap. but its also just a small part of the entire network architecture. like, atproto relays are not CDNs, for example, and video CDNs are expensive to run.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Definitely. Posting https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lo7a2a4qxg2l as its own post would probably help

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

The main centralised part of bluesky right now is their decentralised identifiers right now.

DID:PLC is completely centralised. Its not actually a requirement for a did to be decentralised.

plc.directory is the only registry for them right now.