Fediverse Report – #133

Fediverse Report – #133 (connectedplaces.online)
from wisdomchicken@piefed.social to fediverse@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 14:54
https://piefed.social/post/1244946

this week's #fediverse news:

Government of Nepal shuts down virtually all social media over the weekend, including Mastodon
An open letter calling for a cooling down of discourse and increased respect regarding debates between #activitypub and #atproto about decentralisation
the a.gup.pe system, which added group support for microblogging, shuts down after the domain hijacked.

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underline960@sh.itjust.works on 09 Sep 15:40 collapse

I don’t understand the purpose of the letter.

Bluesky is, in practice, not decentralized.

It has the potential to decentralize, but if the community stops calling bullshit when Bluesky claims to already be decentralized, it would lose the one incentive it has to actually follow through.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 09 Sep 16:06 collapse

I dont know why this is even still a discussion. Bluesky is, intentionally or not, a bad actor that specifically used the empty promise of decentralization to sell the platform to techie people.

When they inevitably go bad in a few years (they kind of already did but thats another topic) there wont be any servers large enough to migrate millions of users to, so their supposed decentralization is entirely ineffective.