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How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? dustycloud.org/blog/how-decent

A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵

dustycloud.orgHow decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
Eliot Lash

@cwebber I've read your entire article, thanks so much for such a detailed & thoughtful writeup. It was very illuminating as I had not come across any discourse yet that really got into the weeds about DID implementations and so forth. I was also not aware of your proposals regarding Ocap. This is interesting stuff I want to try to understand further. I am glad that you are thinking about these pain points with current fedi implementation, we're all feeling them and I hope they can be addressed.

@cwebber I noticed some more things about bluesky flowing from their decision to centralize around a relay. One, they can and have cut the bluesky over to a non-public relay and gave themselves (temporarily) preferential performance over third party consumers: bsky.app/profile/bnewbold.net/

This was only for a couple of days, but still interesting to note.

Bluesky Social · bryan newbold (@bnewbold.net)it's been a rough couple hours for the firehose! it has been flapping around in volume and offset. the bsky app has been smoother because we are using an alternative internal relay (starting a couple days ago). 🧵

@cwebber Two, they also have the ability to, at their discretion (and hopefully temporarily) have their relay suspend consuming any federated PDS of their choosing. currently, they are not consuming any data from bridgy fed: github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/

I don't think it requires much imagination to see why them having this level of control over what people in the network can see might be a problem...

Its delayed so much. Is this normal? I think it's been lagging a lot since the last time it was disconnected. Instead of being posted sequentially. And In severe cases, there is a delay of up to 10...
GitHubfediverse => Bluesky bridging currently paused · Issue #1520 · snarfed/bridgy-fedBy wbz0100