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Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All(slate.com)

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RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca
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What’s the difference, really? Aren’t they both decentralized microblogging social networks?

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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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One is a product with investors selling itself on promises of decentralization (bluesky), the other is a genuine community tool (mastodon) that actually provides decentralization.

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Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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Bluesky is mit licensed, if it goes bad what’s to stop a fork? Once there’s interop between the protocols will it matter at all?

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dan@upvote.au
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Not 100% sure but I don’t think anything would stop either a fork or a new app that uses the same protocol.

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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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There are a million ways open platforms can be undermined, especially when serious money stands to be gained from it. See basically all of human history as exhibit A…

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prototype_g2@lemmy.ml
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BlueSky isn’t decentralised yet. Right now the only thing that is decentralized is data storage. You can’t set up an independent federated instance yet. They promise they will add that feature, but it hasn’t happened yet.

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