[fsflover]

> Bluesky is the first time users have control over their social networking

It's a centralized service run by a company. It's not much different from (early) Twitter. In the end. See this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178543

[jauntywundrkind]

So hosting your data (hosting a PDS) is cheap and easy at the moment, and you can get other people's data. Other folks have their own Relays up already, proving we can combine data decentralizedly. There's active efforts to DIY the third part, the AppView, atop these Relays, but it's computationally expensive (aggregating likes, synthesizing timelines across many sources) & WIP. But nothing stops that; it's just not easy.

Enjoying your link. Pfrazee is such a straight shooter. His post doesn't seem to support the idea that this is centralized. And the whole team keeps saying things like "the network should outlast the company"; everyone has been very vocal about that. https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3lau2bgyolc2g