@gamingonlinux "Bluesky and Mastodon will continue to be my home though. Fool me once with a bajillionaire-owned platform.."
Literally what Bluesky is though......
So I guess that's "fool me twice. Or three times. Or whatever."
@nazokiyoubinbou Bluesky is open protocol and open source
@gamingonlinux In the end it's no more open than Facebook having APIs for some external things to access.
It's still centralized and all the open things connect to the centralization. Even if you build something based on their modified protocol, you can't "federate." The closest thing you can do is what the bridge bot does.
But I guess you'll just have to see for yourself.
@nazokiyoubinbou @gamingonlinux so far Bluesky has talked a whole lot about how open they are but it really should come with some major asterisks attached, as everything actually meaningful about the service is still centralized
you can host your own PDS but if their servers go down that PDS is useless
maybe they get to actual decentralization, maybe not, but given they're a for-profit company I don't understand how they simultaneously sell subscriptions to make money and stay "open"
@lewdmachines @nazokiyoubinbou if you care about decentralisation above all else fine, but i didn’t even mention it
Why is it on Mastodon, without fail, any time I mention any other service all the reply guys come along to go at me for it, y’all so tiring
@gamingonlinux @nazokiyoubinbou it must be rad to comment things like how something is open source and open protocol and then get upset and derogatory when people want to talk about what those things mean
you're a real winner
@lewdmachines @nazokiyoubinbou welcome to mute list
@gamingonlinux @nazokiyoubinbou lol announcing it
ok friendo
@lewdmachines @gamingonlinux @nazokiyoubinbou At the end of the day, Liam has to earn some money with his work and needs to find his audience. And at the moment, BS promises a larger audience.
The technically inclined might have read the thread from Webber or her blog post re "how decentralised is Bluesky really". Maybe Bluesky hasn't fulfilled all promises yet but the people there haven't turned their backs on those promises also. So, they might still go fully open and federated.
And finally, Gamingonlinux doesn't need to adhere to some random purity demands.
@fluchtkapsel @gamingonlinux @nazokiyoubinbou I specifically stated "maybe they get to actual decentralization, maybe not" and I have no interest in purity tests, I was not shitting on BlueSky. I think it's fine, but I also think there's a *lot* of press about how it's so open and they themselves talk up their "federation"
nothing in my post was giving anyone shit, just commenting on the topic, but I got a "LOL MASTODON REPLY GUYS" response so cool
That doesn't really matter in this case. What makes bluesky a viable alternative to X right now is it's social graph. That has reached critical mass for groups of people looking for specific communities outside of X.
When you move instances in the Fediverse you take your social graph with you. A bluesky competitor built on the same source code won't have that advantage.