this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
384 points (96.2% liked)

Fediverse memes

510 readers
604 users here now

Memes about the Fediverse

Other relevant communities:

founded 3 months ago
MODERATORS
 

Blog post by Christine Lemmer-Webber, co-editor of ActivityPub: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

The likely answer to this is that there will always have to be a large corporation at the heart of Bluesky/ATProto, and the network will have to rely on that corporation to do the work of abuse mitigation, particularly in terms of illegal content and spam. This may be a good enough solution for Bluesky’s purposes, but on the economics alone it’s going to be a centralized system that relies on trusting centralized authorities.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Glasgow@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It is happening though. There’s workgroups trying to get their own AppView up, the https://freeourfeeds.com/ initiative announced yesterday, and then moving the register to an ICANN-like consortium.