Blaze (he/him)

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  • Sure but that doesn’t change that they interpreted it the way they did and now they’re enforcing that interpretation. Theoretically any instance could do whatever they want but in reality this instance did the thing that everyone worries about centralised platforms doing.

    Indeed, but the main difference between a centralized platform and a decentralized one is how easy it is for users to change communities.

    If Reddit bans a subreddit, users cannot create any alternative subreddit on the whole platform.

    In the feddit.org case, other users have set up !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com , which everyone can use instead of !europe@feddit.org without having to create a new account.

    I still don’t see any difference or benefit here.

    See above.

    I get the sense that the only place to discuss certain aspects of the Fediverse without people getting angry or taking things personally is somewhere outside of the Fediverse.

    You could create a Fediverse-critic community here, and establish rules who would shape the community that way. There was a !linuxsucks@lemmy.world community that was active for a while.

    Because people are weird and defensive about it and make it part of their personality, which I think is the reason for at least 50% of the hate towards Bluesky.

    People have seen Reddit and Twitter enshittify because of their centralised model. A decentralized model is considered a solution to this.

    I think Bluesky would get less criticism here if they were honest about the fact that they aren’t really going for a decentralized model instead of pretending they are, but then it costs millions to run an independent node would require a whole company

    The likely answer to this is that there will always have to be a large corporation at the heart of Bluesky/ATProto, and the network will have to rely on that corporation to do the work of abuse mitigation, particularly in terms of illegal content and spam. This may be a good enough solution for Bluesky’s purposes, but on the economics alone it’s going to be a centralized system that relies on trusting centralized authorities.

    https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/