The Community Group for #ActivityPub is drafting an open letter calling for respect and collaboration between the people working on the different protocols in the open social web.

I'm signing the letter, and with it, I have some thoughts regarding discourse, decentralisation and why I think this space matters.

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

Pixelfed has 112k monthly active users, 89k being on a single instance

Does this make Pixelfed centralized ?

https://lemmy.zip/post/48357775/21408588

Where does Bluesky intervene in that sign up and usage process?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I do not earn BTC talking about AT Proto.

I mod !fedigrow@lemmy.zip and !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com , and try to make the ActivityPub platform grow and better known.

Qualifying someone as being paid by Bluesky when talking about non-Bluesky managed AT Proto platforms such as deer.social or Blacksky doesn't appear as good faith for conversations.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 15 hours ago

It was actually sorta funny to see an accusation against a fediverse member I know well enough from posts to roll my eyes at. I think I had someone call me a tankie the other day not that long after I had an interminable argument with a workers owning the means of production level socialist.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

Bluesky is centralized and for profit.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

We can loop back to https://lemmy.zip/post/48357775/21510389

When Gmail started supporting XMPP, did that mean that XMPP as a protocol wasn't decentralized?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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.

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