For someone ALLEGEDLY not being paid by the for profit company bluesky, you sure are doing a lot of whataabouting and deflecting for them!

bluesky is a for profit company: https://bsky.social/about/blog/2-7-2022-overview

Bluesky is centralized and for profit.

There is hard evidence that BlueSky’s users are centralized on a single instance: https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/

Bluesky is centralized and for profit.

How many whatabboutisms do you have to do each day per account to earn your btc?

bluesky is a for profit company: https://bsky.social/about/blog/2-7-2022-overview

Bluesky is centralized and for profit.

It’s “open” in the same way that cryptocurrencies are “open”. It doesn’t matter how technically decentralized the power structure is when someone owns more than 99% of the tokens.

There is hard evidence that BlueSky’s users are centralized on a single instance: https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/

There is hard evidence that the word “centralized” means “cluster around a center”: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centralize

There is hard evidence that bluesky is for profit company: https://bsky.social/about/blog/2-7-2022-overview

BlueSky is a for profit company was started by Jack Dorsey, a cryptocurrency booster. The the CEO of BlueSky has a background in crypto.

Cryptocurrency also claims to be “technically decentralized” while missing the point of while actual, real, decentralization is important for social media. When someone owns 99% of a token, the power is concentrated there.

Bluesky is centralized and for profit. The company is lying to you. There is no need to “work together” with someone who is lying to you.

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No, you can’t. You can have a custom domain (“PDS” is the term they invented for this) but it still relies on bluesky’s servers.

Don’t let them distract with with the “whattabout matrix”. The Matrix Foundation is not a social media company, and furthermore it’s a nonprofit.

Bluesky is not decentralized.

You are correct. The term is called “openwashing”. Now and then bluesky employees cultists will come on Lemmy and mastodon and try to LARP that their for-profit company has our best interests in mind.

BlueSky is centralized.

It comes from this 2019 post by Mike Masnick.

Unfortunately the atprotocol is more like Profits > People > Platforms

Absolutely I was not trying to take away from your point! Cory Doctorow actually recently wrote a good piece on Wikipedia that you reminded me of.

I agree with your overall point, but Wikipedia has a singular mission. Social settings can have wildy different missions from shitposting, to hobbies, study groups, to support groups, etc. There is no singular moderation ethos that can apply to all of them, that’s why decentralization is important in social media.

We want to algorithms to work for the people, not have people slaving for the algorithms.

If a grandmother had wheels would you consider her to be a wagon?

No, please respond to the gif. If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a wagon?

BlueSky is centralized. Describing it as “federated” is being (intentionally, in your case) misleading.

ok and bluesky is literally centralized

More avoidance. You astroturfing?

I’m sorry your credibility is at zero with me. You keep avoiding the point.