Bluesky, decentralisation, and the distribution of power Bluesky has seen a large inflow of new users following the results of the US election, and a significant amount of media attention as well. All that attention to Bluesky has also led to a renewed conversation around the question of whether Bluesky is decentralised or not. The terms decentralisation and federation are used in multiple ways: to describe the technological architecture details of an internet protocol, but just as often as a sh...
  • kbal@fedia.io
    4·
    16 hours ago

    Just a hunch, but I think no decentralised network is going to run ATProto unless someone other than Bluesky forks it and makes the protocol changes that would allow that to be practical. I guess it’s possible, in theory?

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
      2·
      15 hours ago

      I’ve not read much about their protocol yet, is there a proposal somewhere on what changes are needed?

      • kbal@fedia.io
        2·
        15 hours ago

        I’m not sure what approach would work. As I understand it, it’s designed around the idea that all messages get routed through a monolithic “relay” which needs to see every single event from every user in order for any of them to get routed between the PDS nodes where user data gets stored.

        Probably best to just add ActivityPub on top of it, if they really wanted to federate with anyone.