Screenshot of the linked website.
@danabra.mov This is a great technical write-up. But it lives in a nerd bubble that ignores the reality of the world out there. In the end, protocols don’t matter - they’re only tools that can be used in different ways. Much more important are stakeholder […]
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Meme "you are banned".
@jay.bsky.team Great! Would be even greater if #bluesky would be decentralized and didn't make centralized decisions to ban individual people mastodon.social/@folkerschamel/115206873... and entire groups of people […]
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Screenshot of linked website.
@jay.bsky.team
Leave to where? Which alternative?
https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
#decentralization
#decentralizationwashing
Decentralization? Herfindahl–Hirschman Index? Shannon Index? Never heard about this. Doesn't exist.
@mmasnick.bsky.social @Gargron @stinerman @ikuturso @glyph
Not really.
mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/11512...
#mastodon #bluesky #decentralization #decentralizationwashing
@cloudhunter.co.uk @mathiastck @lwflouisa @mmasnick.bsky.social @Gargron
But you are now talking about combining your PDS with an alt client. Anyway, I agree of course that there are technical means of evading that block. But that's besides the point. What I consider as #decentralizationwashing […]
Screenshot of the techcrunch article: "The social nonprofit explains that Mastodon doesn’t track its users, which makes it difficult to enforce such legislation. Nor does it want to use IP address-based blocks, as those would unfairly impact people who were traveling, it says."
@mmasnick.bsky.social @Gargron @stinerman @ikuturso @glyph
Unlike #bluesky, #mastodon is not blocked centrally in Mississippi.
Glad to hear it.
It wouldn't have been technically possible anyway, since #mastodon is decentralized […]
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@cloudhunter.co.uk @mathiastck @lwflouisa @mmasnick.bsky.social @Gargron
When still using the #bluesky app view, then an alt client won't help. But aynway, my main point is that such claims are #decentralizationwashing in my view: Such technical debates are completely disconnected from the real […]
Screenshot of the techcrunch article: "The social nonprofit explains that Mastodon doesn’t track its users, which makes it difficult to enforce such legislation. Nor does it want to use IP address-based blocks, as those would unfairly impact people who were traveling, it says."
Unlike #bluesky, #mastodon is not blocked centrally in Mississippi.
Glad to hear it.
It wouldn't have been technically possible anyway, since #mastodon is decentralized […]
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Impressive and comprehensive assessment of Bluesky's lack of decentralization! But also the missing pieces of the Fediverse. #decentralizationwashing #credibleexit dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...
