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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not at all. The issue with Bluesky's "federation" is, you can't really set it up at home, you need thousands of dollars and it's not really accessible.

Search up "Mastodon instances" and then "Bluesky instances" you see like thousands for Mastodon and only the official one for Bluesky. It's marketing gimmick for the mainstream normies who want to pretend they have freedom but in reality they're just jumping on the train with the billionaire who runs it.

[–] timconspicuous@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

you need thousands of dollars

no you don't

Search up “Mastodon instances” and then “Bluesky instances”

Bluesky has a different architecture, there are no "instances", it's PDSs, relays and AppViews, all of which can be and are already being self-hosted.

they’re just jumping on the train with the billionaire who runs it

If you mean Dorsey, he has had nothing to do with Bluesky for well over a year now because he resented them implementing moderation tools

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

IMO, setting it up at home is not the bar for decentralization. I don't think it's even practical to run your own self-hosted fediverse server.

I think we can get just about all the same benefits of decentralization at the scale of the city.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

What makes it impractical? The model’s been working here for years.

[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IMO, setting it up at home is not the bar for decentralization.

That's exactly where I set the bar.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 6 days ago