Should I make a Bluesky account?
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@light Why? Do you not have enough trolls right here, in the open trolling fedi verse?
@admitsWrongIfProven I've been lurking it a bit. There are assholes, but also nice people who just post their art and photos etc. Just like here.
And it has feeds and labellers, which are cool.
@light Ok, personal perspective:
Why would i interact with something that "makes it hard"? What would be my incentive to do that?
@admitsWrongIfProven Well, my incentive is feeds and labellers, like I said.
@light I have no idea what that means. Do you think i should understand?
@light Sorry, too much text. Is there a point?
@admitsWrongIfProven TL;DR: Anyone can be a moderator on Bluesky by creating a "moderation service" that others can subscribe to.
@light Does that offset the dictatorship part where one person can dictate terms?
@admitsWrongIfProven I'm not sure. I'll have to study their terms of service.
@admitsWrongIfProven
Bluesky (or rather, the "ATmosphere") isn't entirely owned by one person. It's actually a whole ecosystem of open source software. It's just that the architecture makes it hard to be fully independent from Bluesky PBC because relays are hard to host.
https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
Despite that though, there are alternatives, such as Blacksky and a frontend using https://constellation.microcosm.blue/ that I can't remember the name of that pulled directly from PDSs (which are self-hostable).