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Bluesky outage double feature, part 1
(sh.itjust.works)
Bluesky managed to go offline practically entirely. I count on you folks to spork the hell out of this.
See also here.
Yeah because decentralization is just a gimmick. It sounds cool on paper, but in reality it doesn't solve many problems - it just introduces many others. The only situation where it helps is if an instance goes down permanently, and even then it's not that helpful.
Decentralization greatly decreases vendor lock-in, lessens the damage of a single actor and adds competition. These are serious long-term benefits for a service and its users.
There's a reason why something like email is still around and being innovated on 40 years later, while its proprietary competitors are long since dead. And it's not that the technology is very good.
Bluesky is just another ICQ/AIM/Slashdot/Digg, a little walled garden that will eventually be ran into the ground. Which is fine. The issue is that it's trying to embrace and extinguish the fediverse by pretending to be decentralized.