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Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?
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this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
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Well 25% is very strict, pretty sure mastodon.social is more than that for the Fediverse (I do wish other instances would grow faster to catch up)
But yea anything higher than 50% is kinda missing the point, ideally they would close signups and suggest people signup on alternative instances instead
Majority share is too powerful
join-lemmy.org actually hides any instance that's over 30% of Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/main/src/shared/components/instances.tsx#L451-L456
Is that what you would actually expect Bluesky to do if they were committed to decentralization?
Bluesky traded good user distribution for growth.
I said "ideally", but they probably would've done a lot of things differently if they were committed to decentralization