Right. You might think you're safe after migrating it to a PDS but in reality the PLC directory says where you can be found and that's only run by the corporation. Of course that's not the only potential issue either, you could also mostly disappear if they just blocked your PDS.
And yeah, even the same thing they did to those opposition figures from Turkey. There might be one or two experimental third-party clients but that was cold comfort for the people who disappeared from the official apps because of course they could not coordinate a Turkish mass migration to zeppelin.
What has followed has been a steep decline in usage from Turkey instead of some kind of credible exit from the Turks...
If this is what you believe to be the case... why are you here?
Well I'm here but not exclusively here for a few reasons. I think people should be aware of it. Maybe push the corporation to be better instead of pretending this is a federated and decentralised platform... or at the very least have a backup plan. It's also still better than Meta Threads and X.
- did:web - alternate relays and appviews and clients and moderation thingies yes the official ones are much MUCH more widely used but the ecosystem is still in infancy + blacksky is already paving the way for "normies" to not be beholden to bluesky pbc
the problem is that if you are interested in not having everything centralized to an insane degree this should have been an actual priority from the start. I don't see great prospects for fixing the imbalance, one of the worst things about BSky is that it does not incentivize decentralization at all
wdym when u say bsky doesnt incentivise decentralisation and how would you propose they do so?
You just don't seem to get much besides a bill to pay out of running many of the services and people need to want to do it for the situation to improve. Not sure what the fix is but there's all sorts of factors that can help from making it cheaper to coming up with all kinds of perks...
They and others have already significantly reduced many costs because open source. But if they're the ones handing out perks, then they're the spider at the centre of the web. You can't have it both ways.
They're always going to be the spider to some extent since they've set up a business model where they have to grow to be huge and make lots of money off this. They could still figure out ways to do it that don't add to that.
It's early days. They got 38m people here, and now others are stepping forward with new apps and alt. infra. Have a little faith. Besides, decentralisation is a spectrum, not a binary question. Other options exist, but unfortunately they suck. mathewlowry.medium.com/all-my-toots...
Like I've outlined Bluesky sucks too but you're asking me to have faith for it while not have it for the other options? If you think the post migration thing is a big one then you should have a little faith that they'll sort that out too just like you think BSky will their total centralization.
It's a timing issue: ActivityPub has maybe a decade to fix this, and hasn't. And in that decade, maybe 11-12m users? I was once very enamoured of the Fediverse. But I had to conclude that while it's great for cozyweb, it's not going mainstream. mathewlowry.medium.com/welcome-to-t...
right now I don't see either service as much more likely than the other to go mainstream but the development models are very different, ActivityPub can keep trying while Bluesky is on a clock and the time is running out quickly.
Fair point, which is why for me the main event is not Bluesky, but the ATmosphere they've created and gotten 38m people into. Now it's up to us, really. We can build something, or we can sit on the sidelines, lobbing snark.
also iiuc plc has some cryptography stuff that makes any tampering somewhat obvious? plus plc mirrors exist So
sure, can monitor for tampering but that only means you'll know if they go rogue... doesn't solve the problem