How decentralized is Bluesky really? nostr:npub1s7kf9vtmyl2vwzwmhrkfvc66t28xlvh5c9dxgdcn2celskacu2gs0qeul5 has a great essay digging in to it and looking at the design decisions that make Bluesky work but also really hard to decentralize.
Nostr is mentioned several times, we take the mantle of an actual decentralized network by making it work really well. Interestingly Primal is the best Nostr client ecosystem and they’ve also had to introduce centralization to make the experience work well.
If you care about social media protocols and want to get in to some of the details about how then work, then read this essay. We can’t build Nostr effectively if we don’t understand what others are doing.
This was a pretty interesting read, even for a lay person. I don't love Bluesky because I don't see what problem it solves other than functioning as a complicated Twitter clone. Nostr and Mastodon are trying to solve some problem, just doing it differently.
They could have dropped all the aspirations of being federated and decentralized and would have had less headaches. Just be a really good Twitter clone.
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