People seem to misunderstand Bluesky. Imagine if a few years ago instead of Twitter crippling their API, they totally opened it up, and at the same time built a distributed platform where you could host your tweets on any server, with usernames tied to your own domain name. Sounds pretty great!
@manton The complaints AIUI are more that (a) federation has not happened, it is currently vaporware; (b) an accountable governance model is absent, so there are no mid term guarantees, and (c) there is a heavy element of centralisation in the relay / firehose model, which could lead to dominance or other issues such as moderation problems
@volkris @jim @manton It's not actually possible to self-host all of the infra required to have a completely isolated, yet connected (federated) instance of Bluesky. As I explain here https://shellsharks.com/notes/2024/11/15/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-not-enshittifying#is-bluesky-decentralized
For multiple reasons, meaningful decentralization may never really happen. That doesn't mean their platform is bad though. They've got a lot of great features, active dev and a surging multitude of communities 🤷♂️
@shellsharks I mean you say it's not possible but you link to an article talking about the possibility.
The article says it's possible.
So there you go.
