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"How decentralized is Bluesky really?" by Christine Lemmer-Webber (dustycloud.org)
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[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It could be done without having to clone all data though. Reddit is hosted by AWS and their data is distributed on multiple servers, so replace AWS by a bunch of people like you and me providing disk space for the data and tada, you can decentralized the database and just give people access to interacting with it directly (through code) or via various front-ends that people would create. […]

If I understand you correctly, there is an open issue for Lemmy for an, I think, similar idea of co-hosting communities.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting but it doesn't remove admins from the equation and users still have to choose an instance to be associated with instead of just having a Lemmy account like they have a Reddit account...

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

[…] it doesn’t remove admins from the equation and users still have to choose an instance to be associated with […]

I think that's a fair point! At any rate, I do agree with you in that I think that users should be completely portable for a truly sustainable federated service.