How decentralized is Bluesky really? - eviltoast

This is a pretty great, long form post about the structure of Bluesky, and how it’s largely kinda pretending to be decentralized at the moment. I’m not trying to make a dig at it. I’ve enjoyed the platform myself for a while, but it’s good to learn more about how it actually works.

This article was shared on Mastodon via its author here.

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    28 days ago

    It doesn’t appear for everyone to see.

    Every user of the extension then, which is apparently a lot of users, enough to affect the site culture, if the other guy’s report reflects reality.