Yeah they tried really hard to make people think it would be federated to get even the slightly more tech savvy people onto bluesky by basing their development on the same protocol as mastodon. Turns out it was just a way to get more users and its actually entirely centralized in all practical ways. Bluesky is textbook “embrace, extend, extinguish”
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Yeah they tried really hard to make people think it would be federated to get even the slightly more tech savvy people onto bluesky by basing their development on the same protocol as mastodon. Turns out it was just a way to get more users and its actually entirely centralized in all practical ways. Bluesky is textbook “embrace, extend, extinguish”