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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: 0.219s | 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. immibis ◴[19 Feb 25 19:40 UTC] No.43106501[source]▶
The approximately a million dollars a year that it costs to run another copy.