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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.
It's federated in name only. It would cost millions in storage and networking to set up another Bluesky node because each node is essentially a full mirror (not that you couldn't code custom filters or something I'd guess?).
No one is ever going to bother unless conservatives want to set up their own server where they can't be banned for trolling.
they couldnt anyway, because bluesky wont release the relay code or interact with foreign relays. theres nothing federating or decentralized about it.
e. i love their answer when you call them out on it.. its 'but our design takes too many resources to federate! but someday, we will release the code!'
Really? Can you point me to where they have said things along these lines?
Why are more people not pointing out they say federation is basically impossible, so that’s why they are not doing it…
From my perspective, plenty of people are pointing it out. One of the authors of activitypub Christine Lemmer-Webber talked about it in depth in a blog post: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/