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?
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BSky is the media's favourite, so of course they're doing the PR campaign.
it's just a lie by a corperation. don't trust it
@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.
Interesting. I don't fully understand the mechanics behind it but it certainly sounds a bit different then the usual
That just sounds like standard scaling. No big Plattform is running on one server with one instance
@notepass No. In difference to regular scaling you can see the host of your account. These are separate systems that communicate via Bluesky's protocol and not via the regular scaling mechanisms.
can users in other instances talk with people in bluesky?
@throws_lemy @noodlejetski Some more background concerning the decentralization:
github.com/bluesky-social/atpr…
I dunno I tried this Bluesky thing and nobody would talk to me. Place smelled good though. Pic related 
Wait, I thought the decentralized version of Twitter was Mastodon
It is. BlueSky or for short BS (ha!) just took the open standard and closed it again!
The article isn’t quite clear on if this is a Twitter subsidiary, or actual competition.
Yea that's a bad title
Offshoot
Was it initially a spin off or something?
Jack Dorsey, formerly head of Twitter, sits on the board for blue sky, which is not related to Twitter.
It was originally a Twitter project, but it clearly didn't get included in the sale. It was Jack's "offload the cost of hosting social media to others, while retaining all of the revenue generating abilities for the company" Hail Mary.
Then the big doofus came along and threw so much money at him.
It also gets "decentralisation" wrong.
Seriously why is Bluesky not open for everyone? Do they have issues with scaling?
@sculd @throws_lemy They are a really small company. So their resources are limited. For example until they started the internal decentralization, they had got a single Postgres database for everything.
I keep reading about bluesky on here, and here on bluesky. But calling it decentralised is wrong.
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Bluesky, a decentralized social media app alternative to X (formerly Twitter), has announced that it has now crossed 2 million users — doing so just two months after crossing 1 million users.
The company is also finally about to add a public web interface, which might help make it a more attractive destination for journalists and other users.
One big hurdle for Bluesky to reach a bigger audience is that people can’t view links to posts without being signed in, so the upcoming public web interface should finally help alleviate that problem.
The public interface is slated for launch “around the end of this month,” according to the company’s blog post.
A federated network would allow users to post through various providers instead of a large central platform like most big social media companies.
Right now, Mastodon is the most prominent decentralized Twitter-like platform that already openly supports multiple providers and has attracted a lot of journalists and professionals.
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