A new kind of article that touts a magical new federated social media but completely overlooks the #fediverse hits differently. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-bluesky-tells-us-about-the-future-of-social-media
@profcarroll Only in this remarkably credulous age can a platform that is neither distributed nor open be heralded as the archetype of distributed open systems, while the real distributed open system is relegated to obscurity.
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A lot of us criticize ActivityPub as being not so much decentralized as centralized around instances.
I WISH it was more decentralized. Bluesky seems to downplay those concentration points from what I’ve seen.
