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Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky (bsky.social)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Alternative Title: "Bluesky pretty sure these leopards won't eat their face."

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bluesky's federation model is actually quite interesting, they go for a very portable approach vs activitypub's instance-basis. Unfortunately, there's still a massive centralization point (the main relay, the only thing that can really handle the firehose), and identity is also centralized, albeit has mechanisms to be decentralized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Aren't identities already decentralized by using domains you own as your identity? Ex. Incase you're unfamiliar, my Bluesky @ is my domain I own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I believe that's your handle, not your identity. Your handle resolves to your identity, but your identity isn't directly tied to it, in case you lose the domain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

While they definitely do this for handles I'm pretty confident this is also done for DIDs (Decentralized identifiers) and it doesn't provide a solution if you lose your domain. I think Bluesky (Appview) specifically gets around this by also tying your DID:web to your DID:plc, in case of domain loss. So I think it exists on the protocol but they don't automatically utilize the decentralization for end-user experience(domain loss) but other appviews can. But I could be wrong.

https://atproto.com/specs/did

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, did:web exists, but I still called it centralized because it still relies on did:plc pretty much everywhere (though honestly domain name handles might actually be did:web, not sure). Didn't know about that dual setup by Bluesky though!