This is why I have been trying to warn about #BlueSky

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

This is why I have been trying to warn about #BlueSky.

BlueSky has just been partially bought by a cryptocurrency company "Blockchain Capital" and appointed a blockchain / cryptocurrency expert to their board:

Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky

Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.

Bluesky (bsky.social)

The board member is a bitcoin researcher involved with NFT analytics.

BlueSky describe the tie-up with Blockchain Capital as a "natural partnership" and says the blockchain company has "a uniquely deep understanding of our decentralized foundation".

(via @jwz)

[vintprox@techhub.social]

@FediTips @jwz They are also imitating decentralization.

[justinh@twit.social]

@vintprox @FediTips @jwz Every time a journalist repeats the claim that BS is "decentralized" I rant about it to whomever is nearest to me at the time.

[sourencho@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@JustinH can you elaborate or point me to a resource please? Very curious

[justinh@twit.social]

@sourencho I would be more curious to find a resource that explains how it is decentralized That said this article is pretty easy to understand:

BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization

Almost exactly six months after Twitter got taken over by a petulant edge lord, people seem to be done with grieving the communities this disrupted and connections they lost, and are ready, eager even

Songs on the Security of Networks (rys.io)

And this toot recently came to my attention which is more technical but also backs it up:

jonny (good kind) (@[email protected])

Content warning: long, bsky, atproto, on the impossibility of multiple relays

Neuromatch Social (neuromatch.social)