Decentralised social media site Bluesky has gone down under the load of new users.
Not to worry, I'll just use one of the other decentralised instances. One of the many wonders of decentralisation.
... What do you mean, there aren't any?
... If a central server goes down, I can't get onto this oh-so-decentralised network?
I guess this must just be how decentralisation works!
I am, overall, glad to see Bluesky supercede X/Twitter (or even Threads).
It is probably better than Mastodon for politics, and that's how I spend a lot of my time. (Mastodon gets the posts about CSS and such.)
But Bluesky should stop pretending to be something it isn't.
Mastodon is decentralised. Bluesky is a Twitter clone with some extra steps. Dressing it up as a "protocol" does nothing when all the parts that matter are under the ownership of one company.
Look at this – so decentralised that they're getting outages caused by "one of our bandwidth providers got their fibre cable cut"
smh
when I joined Bluesky, they first "person" to follow me was a fake account.
is Bluesky where the media agencies are moving to?
I would argue less than 2% of Bluesky users care anything about decentralization.
Also at least here the site was never down, just slow for a few hours.
Cool story tho.
@WhyNotZoidberg Where is it, then?
A veneer of theoretical support is worthless if there is zero implementation.
Fun fact, the Fediverse bridge Is basically the only thing that puts a veneer of credibility to BS' decentralization claims
@FifiSch This is very theoretical and (by their own admission) incomplete. And their incentives point against completing it.
It's a bit like "if you can't test your backups then you have no backups".
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