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How decentralized is Bluesky really? (dustycloud.org)
submitted 2 days ago by garretble to c/technology
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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I thought it takes that much storage to run a relay, not an instance. (Which Bluesky calls a "Personal Data Store.")

Maybe this is just my ignorance showing, but this seems like a really archaic way to design something like this in 2024. Dump all the data into a central repository and then have clients pull from that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Bluesky (well, atproto, bluesky is the twitter clone running on atproto as a demo app) doesn't actually have instances in the mastodon sense, it's a more modular design for better scaling (because it was designed from the start to replace twitter)

Here's a good article with illustrations https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers

[–] TORFdot0 1 points 8 hours ago

It’s not exactly decentralized if you use the official relay only, just distributed which is a different concept entirely