@cwebber in a *very* detailed technical analysis of Bluesky, says that it isn't currently decentralized or federated.
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@cwebber in a *very* detailed technical analysis of Bluesky, says that it isn't currently decentralized or federated. Instead, "...this should actually be the way Bluesky brands itself, which I believe would be more honest: an open architecture (that's fair to say!) with the possibility of credible exit." https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
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@ricmac @cwebber
Much more honest, but not sure it's sufficient. IME people have a tendency to conflate 'possible' with 'feasible', especially when they have incentives to do so.E.g. if they're looking for a reason to like the thing that already makes them feel good, they might well be inclined to read the fact that it's broadly possible for a reasonably sophisticated user to migrate their bsky identity/content to another platform with it being EASY for THEM. (It usually won't be.)
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@ricmac @cwebber Really good critique of why federation-capable isn't the sole metric to go by when comparing ATProto vs ActivityPub. As a (bad) example, if google's search algorithms and front-end were "federated" but you needed Google's infra (cost) to effectively run a truly independent alternative, are you actually running your own "federated search engine" (whatever that might mean) or just building a client/front-end to someone else's data?
