Bluesky has gained over 1.25 million new users in the past week, indicating some social media users are changing their habits following the U.S. election.
I just signed up for bluski, and it offered the option of running it from my own server. So decentralization appears to be possible. The more people use this option, the more decent it will be.
I’m told given its architecture, bluesky still forces all private servers to operate through their servers as a choke point, kind of defeating the purpose of true decentralization. Like hosting your own local server but still needing to go through the ISP gateway.
Still, I agree. And supposedly Bluesky claims they’ll decouple this eventually.
SMH! Damn, it’s so hard to convince people to get on the fedi, and crap like this makes it harder. I got the blsky account to appease a friend. k, back to work.
I just signed up for bluski, and it offered the option of running it from my own server. So decentralization appears to be possible. The more people use this option, the more decent it will be.
I’m told given its architecture, bluesky still forces all private servers to operate through their servers as a choke point, kind of defeating the purpose of true decentralization. Like hosting your own local server but still needing to go through the ISP gateway.
Still, I agree. And supposedly Bluesky claims they’ll decouple this eventually.
SMH! Damn, it’s so hard to convince people to get on the fedi, and crap like this makes it harder. I got the blsky account to appease a friend. k, back to work.