Hi, I’m PolarBair. I’m from Canada and I love retro games, especially fighting games. Since 2019, I’ve been competing and just generally digging into fighting games. I’ve streamed, run brackets online and offline, and assisted in charity events within the FGC.

Important links: Twitch: http://twitch.tv/polar_bair_8 Youtube: http://youtube.com/c/PolarBair8 WordPress: http://polarbair8.wordpress.com

I stream occasionally, mostly just tournaments, but I enjoy looking at new (to me) fighting games and indies from time to time. I also run a discord server called The Community Lab with friends, dedicated to playing and sharing lesser-known fighting games all in one place.

IMHO: #BlueSky isn't decentralised or federated. The outage on 2024-11-14 is obvious proof. It may *look* decentralised and they definitely love to outsource traffic/storage costs by claiming that running your own PDS (Personal Data Server) is somehow something federated, but that's all smoke and mirrors. You have to go deep on [1] to find "networking through Relays instead of server-to-server" as their current implementation choice. THEY run the relays. No one else.

[1] https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture