Mastodawn

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 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 I just wish they would give up the pretense. It's clearly centralised, as you say most users don't care, why misrepresent it?

@tomw The protocol supports decentralization.

@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

The Fediverse, especially through Mastodon, has been acknowledged by the major players as a threat —to be eliminated.

wok