Ok, let’s not have the is Bluesky decentralised discussion again. Kudos to Bluesky’s PR efforts to use complex technology to basically sell themselves as whatever people want to hear (like NFTs but social media). There are a number of X/Threads clones out there, but I’d take a group chat on some relatively secure messaging platform over “social media” any day. Even better if it’s something I can self host or join into one from many servers (remember IRC? Good times).
We really need to rethink this “one corp owns all the keys and all servers” setup.
That's opt-in, mangles usernames, and on top of that quite a few people on Mastodon seemed allergic to the very idea of bridging/federation the last time I looked into it.
So? It's just an example. I'm sure you could do it in a cleaner way. They use different protocols. If you can run your own server and connect with open source tools, it's decentralized. Though of course that doesn't mean a decentralized protocol isn't highly centralized. See email
We really need to rethink this “one corp owns all the keys and all servers” setup.