Bluesky does federation-washing

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27143191

Why I recommend against Bluesky.

Have you ever heard of the term federation-washing?

koncertejo 42 points a year ago

It's just wild to watch Bluesky fans stumble over themselves to say it's part of a federated future and that it's decentralized yada yada, when it takes millions of dollars to do with it what takes me $80 for a Raspberry Pi and $15 for a domain name to do with ActivityPub.

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CMLVI 12 points a year ago

Idk why anyone argues it. I'm on it, but only because I want to support Not Twitter®. I'm there to just be user no. 1663987 who doesn't want to be on Twitter. I post a stupid thought, some sports commentary, and scroll the feed for a minute or two. If it went away tomorrow, I'd have 0 negative effects on my life in even the most miniscule way.

Like...I like it there, and people seem to want an alternative to Twitter pretty bad, but idk if Bluesky is it. But I also don't care to join Mastodon, as this kinda format isn't something I care about or take seriously, and I'd rather get information here. If I get a Mastodon account in the future, though, I'd rather not have it tied directly back to my spite posting account lol

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HobbitFoot 14 points a year ago

Bluesky is new Twitter today.

There is nothing in its design to prevent it from becoming the X of tomorrow.

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4Robato 0 points a year ago

If you really don't care that much just go to Mastodon and leave bluesky as there is a better decentralized place already. If everyone on bluesky went to Mastodon instead the Fediverse would get a lot more attention and get better too.

Specially seeing you in Lemmy, why did you leave reddit then (I'm assuming you did sorry if it's not the case)? For me was precisely to not give that much power to a single company and this applies to lots of things not just twitter. Centralizing power is bad and bluesky is exactly that at the end.

I want to support people that really tries to solve this issues and not just people who takes this as an opportunity to be the next Elon Musk, ups I mean twitter.

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30p87 4 points a year ago

15€ is enough for three domains!

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Flax_vert 3 points a year ago

Those are steep prices for a pi and a domain

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koncertejo 8 points a year ago

Canadian $

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