How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? A technical deep-dive - by Christine Lemmer-Webber coauthor of ActivityPub
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Worth sharing this, too: https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t
"a more uncomfortable version of Secure Scuttlebutt for Bitcoin people to talk about Bitcoin"
So talk about bitcoin man!!!! Hahahaha
"In Nostr you simply "embrace the chaos" of only grabbing the information from hubs you use, and hubs don't try to fetch all information.) For instance, if Ben replies to Alyssa's message in one of these systems but does not leave the reply message in the relay which Alyssa pulls from, Alyssa would never see Ben's reply. If multiple relays were to exist in Bluesky, this same problem would presumably occur, so how does Bluesky solve this?
The answer is: Bluesky solves this problem via centralization."
Based.
The difference between Bluesky and Nostr is:
Bluesky really thinks they can get away with a "fake it till you make it" mentality.
Nostr people built the protocol with the bitcoin standard in mind:
No bullshit. Just show me the incentives and tradeoffs.
Once fake, ALWAYS a fake, no exceptions.
It was so easy to spot this from the beginning.