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Twitter’s decentralized offshoot Bluesky now has 2 million users (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 52 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Bluesky is technically decentralized, since it’s built on top of the AT Protocol, but users who sign up for Bluesky (which is still invite-only) still must sign up via the company’s main bsky.social network.

so... not decentralized as of now?

[–] heluecht@pirati.ca 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

@throws_lemy @noodlejetski The registry still is centralized, but the users already are distributed across multiple servers that talk to each other using that protocol.

[–] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I don't fully understand the mechanics behind it but it certainly sounds a bit different then the usual

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