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How decentralized is Bluesky really? (dustycloud.org)
submitted 8 months ago by garretble@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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This is a pretty great, long form post about the structure of Bluesky, and how it's largely kinda pretending to be decentralized at the moment. I'm not trying to make a dig at it. I've enjoyed the platform myself for a while, but it's good to learn more about how it actually works.

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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

The instance owner owns the instance, but it's limited to that. That is the minimum level possible. There has to be a server somewhere. On Lemmy you can always leave for another instance or start your own. On Reddit your options are to do what the company wants or leave the entire site. You can't just log into a different server.

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