How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
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This is a pretty great, long form post about the structure of Bluesky, and how it’s largely kinda pretending to be decentralized at the moment. I’m not trying to make a dig at it. I’ve enjoyed the platform myself for a while, but it’s good to learn more about how it actually works.

This article was shared on Mastodon via its author here.

  • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Is it “widely used”? An aim bot directly affects everybody else, actively making the game worse. This only affects a small number of people who choose to opt-in and trust the labeller’s opinion. I can’t even find that labeller and I learnt about it from you. And again, it’s not BSky that offers the labeller - that IS an important distinction.

    • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      No I don’t think the distinction matters. Twitter sucks because it’s full of Nazis. It’s irrelevant that Twitter doesn’t supply the Nazis itself. The culture that a platform fosters is part of the platform.

      As for the visibility of the labelling on bsky, idk, I guess I’ll take your word for it. It had sounded like a built in feature that was visible to everyone, but ok, maybe not.

      • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
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        6 days ago

        And yet, everybody stayed until the Muskrat took over. Because until then it wasn’t the platform telling people to be nazis and nazis were a nuisance but a minority - as are people who falsely accuse scientists of being anti-science on BSky. That’s exactly what I’m saying.

        • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 days ago

          If the label appears on your profile for everyone to see without further info then it’s truth value is thrown away. IDK how big a problem it really is on bsky now though. The other guy says it is, you seem to think the opposite, I don’t care enough to look into it further.

          If Twitter went Nazi post-Musk while it’s software stayed about the same, that shows that management really does shoulder blame.

          • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
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            6 days ago

            It doesn’t appear for everyone to see.

            I feel like we’re talking past each other and it’s too exhausting to try and get across what I’m saying. Have a pleasant day.

            • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              6 days ago

              It doesn’t appear for everyone to see.

              Every user of the extension then, which is apparently a lot of users, enough to affect the site culture, if the other guy’s report reflects reality.