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YSK: Before she was the CEO of BlueSky Jay Graeber worked in cryptocurrency
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I keep seeing people ask why people call Bluesky decentralised. I never see people call Bluesky decentralised.
(Okay, "never" isn't quite correct, I've seen the term used in relation to Bluesky maybe a handful of times but you make it sound like that's their main selling point)
I find that surprising, because BlueSky uses that term: https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web
Jay Graeber herself described it as such.
Here is the Verge calling it decentralized: https://www.theverge.com/23686778/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-interview-decentralized-social-media-twitter-mastodon
Here is NYT calling it decentralized: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/technology/bluesky-x-alternative.html
Here is CNN calling decentralized: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/28/tech/bluesky-social/
Yes, because it is, you can host your own server (pds, relay and UI) on like a 30$ vps.