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this week's #fediverse news:

  • Government of Nepal shuts down virtually all social media over the weekend, including Mastodon
  • An open letter calling for a cooling down of discourse and increased respect regarding debates between #activitypub and #atproto about decentralisation
  • the a.gup.pe system, which added group support for microblogging, shuts down after the domain hijacked.
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[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't understand the purpose of the letter.

Bluesky is, in practice, not decentralized.

It has the potential to decentralize, but if the community stops calling bullshit when Bluesky claims to already be decentralized, it would lose the one incentive it has to actually follow through.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I dont know why this is even still a discussion. Bluesky is, intentionally or not, a bad actor that specifically used the empty promise of decentralization to sell the platform to techie people.

When they inevitably go bad in a few years (they kind of already did but thats another topic) there wont be any servers large enough to migrate millions of users to, so their supposed decentralization is entirely ineffective.