I don't want to take anything away from Jay Graber. She is an effective leader that has steered her company to massive growth,

But I feel like she needs to work on her elevator pitch for what it means for a system to be "decentralized". Note: no one says the word "federated" in this interview.

Of course, it would be nice if #bluesky was *actually* decentralized. Maybe that is why she struggles with the question?

https://youtu.be/Xa-EvA95Eqw?si=lscEM-YWb6XCFa_6

#fediverse #federation

Friendly reminder, if a cable is cut somewhere in the world, #mastodon will not go down.

Why? Because it is truly decentralized.

The #bluesky marketing doesn't hold up when compared to the facts.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/14/24296537/bluesky-acting-up-outage-down

@rob I challenged her directly on this topic through BridgyFed and she didn't really have a good answer. That was about 8 months ago and they still haven't figured out that a system that requires a connection to a centralized system, then none of it is decentralized.

@rob

can't find it now but there was an article going around calling bluesky mediated as opposed to federated mastodon. are those both versions of decentralization? maybe but imo more like a way to sound cool and immune to billionaire takeover and abuse to the average consumer, while still being able to do exactly that long-term as every VC funded startup does.

I didn't know jay before so whatever, but that masnick and any other tech press is going along with this charade pisses me off.

@wjmaggos

Here is a post by @jwildeboer that explains how #bluesky is not decentralized.

TLDR: all traffic is routed through relays. All relays are operated by #bluesky.

There is a diagram included in the post. Yes, you can operate a personal data store at great expense. It's all laid out in the blog post.

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2024/11/My-Digital-Life-After-Twitter/