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!

@tomw Yes, they are not decentralized as in Mastodon's "everyone can have their own Mastodon on a home Raspberry Pi", they are decentralized in a way "You can keep your personal data on Raspberry Pi and if we as a network ever start enshittyfying, a competing company with some resources can steal our whole network"
@FifiSch that is only in theory, I don't know about you but I feel I've seen that before and don't really buy it without proof.

@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".