@jezebelley
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Fedi is people, Bluesky is a corporation.
Almost all Fedi servers are owned and run by ordinary people and grassroots non-profits. Fedi servers are fully independent and anyone can start one.
Bluesky is owned by a for-profit corporation run by cryptocurrency people. Bluesky doesn't have independent servers, it has a centralised corporate infrastructure through which everything flows. It's structured to prevent servers being independent.
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🌈 Kevin Bowersox 🖖replied to Fedi.Tips 🎄 last edited by@FediTips @jezebelley
Can you point me to an explainer for this part? "It's structured to prevent servers being independent." -
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@SnerkRabbledauber @jezebelley
Servers on Bluesky cannot communicate with each other at all. They can only communicate with relays, and then the relays (if the relays feel like it) will pass on their messages to other servers. The relays are very expensive to run, and AFAIK the only one at the moment is owned by Bluesky themselves.
On the Fediverse, it's much simpler: servers communicate directly with other servers and don't need to connect to any kind of relay. Fedi servers are independent.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] yeah relays here are entirely optional and just help you discover new servers. on bsky if you didn't connect to the relay you wouldn't be able to send or receive posts (your pds sends the relay your post, and you consume from the relay with your appview)
