IMHO: #BlueSky isn't decentralised or federated. The outage on 2024-11-14 is obvious proof. It may *look* decentralised and they definitely love to outsource traffic/storage costs by claiming that running your own PDS (Personal Data Server) is somehow something federated, but that's all smoke and mirrors. You have to go deep on [1] to find "networking through Relays instead of server-to-server" as their current implementation choice. THEY run the relays. No one else.
[1] bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-202…
Federation Architecture Overview - Bluesky
Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment for federation. In advance, we want to share some technical details about our design decisions.Bluesky
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •It's well hidden, but in Bluesky the Relay system, AppView and identity layer PLC are centralised parts.
The posts you see come from the AppView. The AppView gets its data from the Relay. The Relay gets its stuff rom the PDSes. So you always go through the relay. No direct connection from AppView to PDS. Yes, they promise that in future you might be able to run your own relay. But right now and since its inception, Bluesky runs the relay system you connect to. I call that centralised.
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦, Wilfried Klaebe und buzzdee haben dies geteilt.
Jiří Eischmann
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Pete Keen
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Tom Walker
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •jer
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Little1Lost
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •And as I am experimenting with local AI and run one of the #Granite models on my laptop, I asked it about the difference between Mastodon and Bluesky. Well:
"The main difference between Mastodon and Bluesky is that Mastodon is a decentralized platform with local instances, while Bluesky is a centralized platform with a single, global network."
😀
Strypey hat dies geteilt.
Michael McCune
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Jiří Eischmann
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •LOL
BTW what version of Granite are you using? 2b is reasonably fast on my computer, but not very useful. 8b is definitely better, but too slow on my computer. :/
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •teilten dies erneut
erAck und buzzdee haben dies geteilt.
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •buzzdee hat dies geteilt.
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •So, in conclusion and IMHO, BlueSky is a successful Twitter alternative.
The Fediverse including Mastodon is not. The fediverse is a fundamentally different and bigger thing due to its truly federated nature.
And both can have their place in the market of attention.
One ultimately is a commercial endeavour while the other is not. But for the general audience that simply is not the decisive factor. One can find that A Bad Thing, or one can shrug and move on in ones preferred direction 😀
Maxi 10x 💉 hat dies geteilt.
Juha Autero
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
Als Antwort auf Juha Autero • • •Justin ⏚
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Bryan Ruby 🌤️
Als Antwort auf Justin ⏚ • • •Justin ⏚
Als Antwort auf Bryan Ruby 🌤️ • • •@bryanruby @jautero How does moderation on BlueSky work?
I agree Threads shouldn't even be in the discussion but for the same reasons BlueSky shouldn't.
Bryan Ruby 🌤️
Als Antwort auf Justin ⏚ • • •@JustinH @jautero
Bluesky has basic tools moderation tools you would expect (block, mute, warn, etc) you would come to expect. But they also have a labeling system (both official and allows for third-party) that allows users to report on users/posts. For instance I can use a third-party labeler to block Broncos fans (for real). All of this is voluntary for the user to use or not use. Basic image below. An example of “advanced” is Bluesky’s own:
bsky.app/profile/moderation.bs…
Bryan Ruby 🌤️
Als Antwort auf Bryan Ruby 🌤️ • • •@JustinH @jautero
Additional information can be found at Bluesky. The second link is a recent Verge article that talks about the “extras” you can do within Bluesky.
bsky.social/about/support/comm…
theverge.com/24295933/bluesky-…
Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky
Wes Davis (The Verge)Paul McO'Smith III
Als Antwort auf Bryan Ruby 🌤️ • • •@bryanruby @JustinH @jautero the only people we hate more than the judean people's front is...
why is decentralisation and federation a Good Thing? what happens when my server goes down... for good?
this place is complex. servers? what the hell are they? why do i need to choose one? which one should i choose? is this a safe one to choose? what are they doing? recording? selling?
bluesky *is* twitter. the good old days. when it was safe, moderated, ad free.
nobody ever makes the case for federation. it is always why a non federated model is wrong. the post below... who the hell cares? that's such a technical complaint. that's supposed to make me think "ooh... mastodon" as a non techie?
what, in terms of simply being able to interact with people, is the actual advantage of mastodon? i am a techie in my day job. on social media i simply want to post stuff, read stuff, and interact with stuff.
federation? what is that and why do i care? make the case for decentralisation.
Tris
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Avuton Olrich
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Frédéric Hardy
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •My Digital Life After Twitter (G+, Facebook, Instagram etc)
Jan Wildeboer (Jan Wildeboer's Blog)Doug Webb
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
Als Antwort auf Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋 • • •Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
Als Antwort auf Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋 • • •Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Maybe Bluesky has “won”
Gavin AndereggJiří Fiala Total Landscaping
Als Antwort auf Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋 • • •cuan_knaggs
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Sovy
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •always tired
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Rob
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •This is a question from someone who uses a host service for my Mastodon node.
I tried setting up a relay on my tiny instance and the server instantly had issues. So, in practice, Mastodon relays don't work for me. To that end, I believe my Mastodon setup is close to this diagram. No?
Rob
Als Antwort auf Rob • • •I understand that. But what is the architectural difference?
You highlighted the Relay in your post. And I am saying, "I don't have access to Mastodon relays." So why is Mastodon better?
Trying to understand your objection.
Rob
Als Antwort auf Rob • • •mkj
Als Antwort auf Rob • • •@rob ActivityPub relays are specifically to exchange large number of posts between many different instances. That requires a good bit of horsepower and Internet bandwidth; and connecting to one means your instance is suddenly getting a lot more traffic. That's good for some things, bad for others.
You can run a single-user Fediverse instance *just fine* without ever touching an ActivityPub relay, in which case you'll see (and basically only see) posts from those you follow.
@jwildeboer
Rob
Als Antwort auf mkj • • •@mkj
I ported my Twitter account to Mastodon to one of the larger servers (techhub.social) which likely has a relay. Then I moved to my own instance. Those 2 hops gave me some people to follow. That’s likely why others on my server don’t post much.
Circling back to the #bluesky discussion. What good are distributed relays if they aren’t available to everyone (because of the costs)?
Aral Balkan
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Oblomov
Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
Als Antwort auf Oblomov • • •Shine McShine
Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • • •Sebastian :coffefied:
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •It's also not running on thin air, but uses VC money and that money will request a profit at some point.
They can't make profit on a free service, so at some point they will sell it or implement some of the shitty tactics of crypto boys (CEO, Dorsey) or they will skim the data themselves and sell it to the highest bidder.
Nothing on the Internet is free. I'm amazed people fall for it again and again...
Jim Direct - cartoon
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Little1Lost
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •1 BlueSky is Cosplaying Decentralisation
rys.io/en/167.html
2 some dude ranting about how the protocol works
layer8.space/@sam@urbanists.so…
BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization
Songs on the Security of NetworksGareth Kitchen
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Indeed. I’m not going read that again but when I had a look at the protocol a couple of years ago it was obvious, to me back then, that the entire platform was all geared up for monetization. It’s distributed claims are geared more to the processing of user data rather than distributed in the Fedi sense. For processing ID, content, advertising markers etc. All disastrous for privacy etc.
However. All that aside. The onboarding is slick. Finding people is easy. Starter packs are inspired. It’s a direct replacement for Twitter. It looks and feels how Twitter used to be a decade ago. Without ads too.
Maxi 10x 💉
Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag • • •Maxi 10x 💉 hat dies geteilt.
Martijn "McDutchie" Dekker🇪🇺
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Exactly.
Of course, they'd probably be quite happy for you to volunteer your free labour and storage for them to control.
Kevin Karhan :verified:
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •preciesly that.
#BlueSky is just #Shitter for #Dorsey fans with #StockholmSyndrome!
Bryan Ruby 🌤️
Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag • • •Bryan Ruby 🌤️
Als Antwort auf Bryan Ruby 🌤️ • • •@JustinH @jautero Jan, I suspect that’s a placeholder for complying with German law in case something isn’t covered under global moderation tools.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_…
German social media regulation law
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Bryan Ruby 🌤️
Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag • • •Justin ⏚
Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag • • •@bryanruby @jautero Eh, if every individual has to do the work of moderating every single little thing that comes their way it becomes exhausting really fast.
Putting the onus on the people being harassed to stop the harassment is a surefire way to discourage those people from participating (which knowing Dorsey & co I suspect might be part of the point!).
Justin ⏚
Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag • • •William Gunn
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •Paul McO'Smith III
Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag • • •@bryanruby @JustinH @jautero the arguments are all... singularly... about federation. the argument is simple:
federation is better because federation is better.
i am on all 3, and will remain there for some time. i can, though, see why people will go to bsky before here. very simple. conversations like this don't exist.
follow. post. respond. read. that's all.
always tired
Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag • • •Benjamin Sonntag-King
Als Antwort auf Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: • • •alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi…
I was pointed to the fact that installing your own gateway AND plc directory mirror is possible.
Who's right then?
(I'd really like to know since some friends are pretending bsky is really fully decentralis-able)
How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now) — alice.bsky.sh
alice.bsky.sh