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[-] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

What's the difference, really? Aren't they both decentralized microblogging social networks?

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 14 points 19 hours ago

One is a product with investors selling itself on promises of decentralization (bluesky), the other is a genuine community tool (mastodon) that actually provides decentralization.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

Bluesky is mit licensed, if it goes bad what's to stop a fork? Once there's interop between the protocols will it matter at all?

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 16 hours ago

There are a million ways open platforms can be undermined, especially when serious money stands to be gained from it. See basically all of human history as exhibit A...

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago

Can you give a specific example of how bluesky could be?

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 17 hours ago

Not 100% sure but I don't think anything would stop either a fork or a new app that uses the same protocol.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

I really don't see how it could matter tbh

I think lemmy should get atproto support too.

[-] prototype_g2@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

BlueSky isn't decentralised yet. Right now the only thing that is decentralized is data storage. You can't set up an independent federated instance yet. They promise they will add that feature, but it hasn't happened yet.

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