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Seriously i have zero idea what is going on with bluesky. I never used it. Why are people saying it's centralised? I also heard that a lot of people are joining it.

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[โ€“] otter@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

https://lemmy.ca/comment/12906744

I talked about it in this comment, which should hopefully still be recent enough to be accurate

It's still too soon to tell what they will do. It's totally possible that they will take the necessary steps to be properly decentralized by transferring control of the registry + protocol to an independent non profit.

Right now I feel that they don't have much of an incentive to do that, since the vast majority of their users won't care.

I would love to be proven wrong

[โ€“] otter@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

As a follow-up, if you have people on Bluesky you want to follow, go for it :) Community is important

There is also a mastodon bluesky bridge that some people use to access both