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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@benroyce last night I caught up on all the drama and I'm absolutely flabbergasted... and a little surprised there hasn't been more talk on here about the implications of the false promises of AT Proto's decentralization.

Link has been permanently banned even if he's on Blacksky... because Blacksky uses Bluesky's AppView https://bsky.app/profile/rvbdrm.com/post/3m2jxe5ly722x

Looking up "Link Blacksky" on Bluesky surfaces really interesting talking points

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@benroyce last night I caught up on all the drama and I'm absolutely flabbergasted... and a little surprised there hasn't been more talk on here about the implications of the false promises of AT Proto's decentralization.

Link has been permanently banned even if he's on Blacksky... because Blacksky uses Bluesky's AppView https://bsky.app/profile/rvbdrm.com/post/3m2jxe5ly722x

Looking up "Link Blacksky" on Bluesky surfaces really interesting talking points

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Luca Sironi
@luca@sironi.tk replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@_elena @benroyce i don't get it.
Blacksky afaik have, or it's close to have, all pieces of the atproto stack.

Then, of course, reach is compromised if 99% of people use just bluesky pieces, but that's also true for someone that's is banned by the top instances here.

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Luca Sironi
@luca@sironi.tk replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@_elena @benroyce i don't get it.
Blacksky afaik have, or it's close to have, all pieces of the atproto stack.

Then, of course, reach is compromised if 99% of people use just bluesky pieces, but that's also true for someone that's is banned by the top instances here.

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irelephant@calckey.world
@irelephant@calckey.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@luca@sironi.tk @_elena@mastodon.social @benroyce@mastodon.social They have bluesky's mod service added to their appview. They can remove this at any time, and substitute it with their own.,

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Ben Royce 🇺🇦
@benroyce@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@luca @_elena

how is 99% bluesky "also true" for 25% mastodon.social's share?

it's not "also true"

99 does equal 25

in fact, large parts of the fediverse suspend mastodon.social

read, understand:

https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/

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Luca Sironi
@luca@sironi.tk replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@benroyce @_elena

I don't particularly like AT proto, aside the bridge, i'm not there, I find it extremely difficult to understand it, for no relevant reason to me.
On the contrary, ActivityPub can be understood in 5 minutes from anyone willing to.

What I mean is that, once someone prove to be able to fully self-host AT, it's up to people to do so.
It became open to decentralization.

Your account is on the flagship mastodon instance, that 25% is also concerning, ok, less concerning but still concerning.

I guess also mastodon.social had 100% of share at the beginning

Last year they got 100%, I don't think they have still 99%, but let's see in one year from now.

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Ben Royce 🇺🇦
@benroyce@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@luca @_elena

i don't care about promise, i care about reality

i also judge harshly endless promise and no delivery. people have been hyping bluesky as decentralized for years. but it isn't. so it's people swallowing hype and ignoring facts

"someday"

i don't care

today, mastodon is decentralized, blueksy isn't, and all bluesky does is promise and doesn't deliver

that means something. something i will judge

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@luca @benroyce they are relying on relays and the appview provided by Bluesky... that's why they share the same moderation. I don't understand the technicalities of it but they are not fully independent yet

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irelephant@calckey.world
@irelephant@calckey.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@_elena@mastodon.social @luca@sironi.tk @benroyce@mastodon.social Blacksky has their own relay: https://atproto.africa

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Luca Sironi
@luca@sironi.tk replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@_elena @benroyce

I could be wrong, but I think I heard Rudy Fraser saying that they also have a running app-view

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Ben Royce 🇺🇦
@benroyce@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@luca @_elena

just scroll up

look at the top post

it shows someone is suspended on bluesky and as a consequence they don't show up on blacksky

it's like someone suspends you on mastodon.social, then also you're not visible anymore on sironi.tk

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@benroyce @luca brilliant analogy Ben.

And besides visibility, I think Link - and other people who got banned - may have also lost the ability to log onto their accounts. Post history, social graph, followers, poof! All gone up in smoke (as far as I can tell, correct me if I'm wrong).

On the Fediverse, my self-hosted GoToSocial instance ensures I have full control. Sure, I can be blocked by scores of other instances, but I still have control over my data. The true power of decentralization

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Ben Royce 🇺🇦
@benroyce@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@_elena

"surprised there hasn't been more talk on here about the implications of the false promises of AT Proto's #decentralization"

there's feverish true believers who think #bitcoin is the future of money

never going to happen: massive energy use

that doesn't stop the true believer

it's a cult

same with " #bluesky is #decentralized"

and my example of bitcoin is purposeful:

bluesky is run by #cryptoBros, and funded by #crypto bros

they imported the crypto con job to #socialMedia

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