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Yep, I've been particularly irked with the way people keep calling Bluesky "decentralized". Simply having multiple servers doesn't make it decentralized, that's like saying YouTube is decentralized because they have dozens of CDN centers.
If every endpoint on the network is owned and controlled by a single entity that manages white/blacklists, then it is not decentralized. I'm not sure what you would call it, maybe "pluralized"? Not sure, but definitely not "decentralized". A decentralized network will have no such authority that controls who can and cannot join it.
Ok.....so then doesn't that take ALL power away from every mod?
Let's say you ban [email protected]
But then I could create [email protected]
And you could ban it. And I could create [email protected] (or however it's formatted).
And then this cat and mouse could happen, all day every day. Just a series of me creating accounts, you blocking them, but it then becoming a full time job making sure I'm currently banned, and me evading the system.
Or am I missing something?
Nah, you're not missing anything, and that is already happening. There's a few users who keep creating new accounts on alternate instances to post troll threads. But it's on a small-enough scale that it's trivial for mods/admins to deal with. And realistically, it's more work for the troll than it is for the mods, so eventually the troll user will either tire themselves out or simply run out of instances to make new accounts from.
It's definitely an intrinsic problem that ActivityPub doesn't really have a reasonable solution for yet. It's sort of a necessary evil in order for the rest of the Fediverse to function freely, and part of the compromise that users and communities need to accept and live with in order to keep things running. But, I don't think it'll become a major issue unless the Fediverse sees a massive influx of users, like the sort of scale that Bluesky saw with Twitter's exodus.
Also, ban evasion is not exactly fixed in other contexts either. The only absolute solution is identity verification.