Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

It worries me that the SillyCon Valley tech press is still publishing articles about decentralised social media by people who don't have the first clue what the word "decentralised" means.

What BlueSky going down shows is that BlueSky is not decentralised. Even if the ATmosphere as a whole is getting there. But one TechCrunch writer's takeaway was;

"It turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too."

#SarahPerez, 2025

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/wait-how-did-a-decentralized-service-like-bluesky-go-down/

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#SocialWeb #decentralization
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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@waffles
> the article was quite fair in its representation

Sure, but I was commenting on the opening statement, which is the equivalent of reporting on a Mastodon.social outage by claiming that;.

"It turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too."

This is profoundly wrong, and heavily misleading. On a social media or blog post it's forgivable. But in an edited publication that specialises in tech? It's malpractice.