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148 points IAmGraydon | 4 comments | | HN request time: 2.621s | source

Hey fellow HN enthusiasts!

I'm looking to expand my Bluesky feed with accounts that share interesting, tech-related content, similar to what we discuss here on HN.

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Aachen ◴[] No.42189950[source]
I see a lot of people on Mastodon posting jokes about Twitter users moving to another centralised and venture capital-backed platform, like that "this time it will be different for sure!". I haven't read up on it myself so don't know what to think. Can someone burst my bubble on this?

Edit: saw a lot of valid responses, thanks! My question is answered and I might sign up on bsky as well if I get bored on Mastodon or want to connect with someone there :)

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jazzyjackson ◴[] No.42190041[source]
Mastadonians are being total sore losers , they're so proud that they're actually decentralized and self hosted (even tho most users are on mastadon.social)

IMO bluesky being a clone of Twitter in its UX means that you're going to get the same social dynamics, just a different group in charge of moderation decisions.

Bluesky is supposed to offer a different architecture of allowing users to decide what they see via shared blocklists and labeling services, but they still regularly ban right wingers, trolls, and griefers from having an identifier on their servers, and since there's no one hosting an alternate appview, it's Pretty Damned Centralized (tm) for the time being.

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1. broodbucket ◴[] No.42190071[source]
>they're so proud that they're actually decentralized and self hosted (even tho most users are on mastadon.social)

Sorry, is any of that supposed to be wrong? People who use a decentralised platform aren't going to be fans of a new, mostly-centralised platform, I don't see how that's being sore losers. I also don't think most people on the Fediverse expect mainstream adoption any time soon, and many don't want it either.

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2. llamaimperative ◴[] No.42190083[source]
They’re saying the talk about being distributed but generally congregate heavily on one (centralized) instance
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3. broodbucket ◴[] No.42190730[source]
Being on a large instance doesn't mean you don't care about decentralisation, you can still choose to migrate to a different instance if you want. The whole point is you're not locked in to one vendor and you can move if you want to, not that everyone should have to live on their own island
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4. llamaimperative ◴[] No.42193357{3}[source]
Sure… but you can see why it makes it hard to care (and in particular stomach the complexity of coming onboard)