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When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

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768 points cyndunlop | 1 comments | 19 Feb 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.23s | source
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dang ◴[19 Feb 25 18:14 UTC] No.43105332[source]▶
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amazingamazing ◴[19 Feb 25 18:09 UTC] No.43105271[source]▶
I don’t understand the infatuation with blue sky. The minute they need money it’ll go the way of the Reddit and twitter.
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xrisk ◴[19 Feb 25 18:10 UTC] No.43105292[source]▶
People want the old Twitter, and Bluesky is close to that. It also cosplays being decentralized to people who don’t look too closely.
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dom96 ◴[19 Feb 25 18:40 UTC] No.43105685[source]▶
What makes it not decentralised?
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1. xrisk ◴[19 Feb 25 18:54 UTC] No.43105868[source]▶
The fact that you have to be on “the” relay to meaningfully participate on the network.

If you instead claim that users can always choose to use other 3P relays, then you immediately lose all the nice things that Bluesky is able to do well today (search, discoverability, a “discover” algorithm). Indeed, you fall back to the same old problems that every other decentralized social network has.

Bluesky is just a shittier version of Nostr, except that the people over at Nostr don’t pretend.