• shortwavesurfer
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    1 day ago

    Oh, well that’s good anyway. Is it true that they only have like one major server? Because I’ve heard that, but I haven’t looked much into them, so I’m not sure if it’s still the case or not. To my understanding, they are meant to be a federated network, but really only have the one server.

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      6 hours ago

      Of course it is, why would people throw millions at investing in a product and then decentralize it to the point that there weren’t any bottlenecks to apply pressure and extract a profit back out of it? It makes no sense and would be a ridiculous business strategy.

      What is a good business strategy is associating your product with visions of decentralization while never truly intending to get there in practice.

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        6 hours ago

        Fair point. They will just grow their user base and then go all walled garden just like all the rest of the platforms. Protocols not platforms.

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      24 hours ago

      Yeah this is still true as far as I know. Honestly this is probably what allowed BS to gain a foothold; I like mastodon too but asking new users to pick a server was always going to be a source of adoption friction.

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      1 day ago

      AFAIK that’s still the case, yes. I don’t have a Bluesky (or Threads) account so I can’t confirm.