Bluesky isn't decentralized - and might never get there.
setting up a Relay requires around 4.5 TB of disk space, and that it’s growing by around 18 GB a day
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2024
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I’m in favor of things expiring.
Important to note the Jack Dorsey is no longer affiliated with bsky. He moved on and they now have a team of 20 running bsky.
Until there's more than one server, it is absolutely not decentralized and should not be thought of as such.
In a hilarious timeline, xitter tanks hard and goes bankrupt. Then musk floats a stupid proposal to buy Bluesky that crosses legal lines and a judge forces him to buy it for way more than it's worth.
Unfortunately, in ours, Twitter has become an arm of the U.S. government.
The Ministry of Truth
To be honest, nearly everyone who uses Lemmy probably also uses Mastodon instead of Bluesky or Twitter. Edit: Or Threads. Completely forgot, that they also existed.
I don’t use either, but I hated the Twitter format from the beginning, if I had irl friends on the federated Instagram replacement I’d consider it.
I kind of use it, but not everyone is on it. I'd rather user blue sky than X, though
And also-
