[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 22 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

There are only 15,000 out of 36 Million users that are on servers not owned by Bluesky.

99.96% of users being on one instance isn't Decentralised even if the technology supports it in theory. If 99.96% of users were on lemmy.world, I wouldn't call lemmy decentralised even if the technology allows it in theory.

🧮 Decentralization Scoring System (v1.3)

📋 Breakdown (Estimates)

Platform	Score	Visualization
📧 Email	95	🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🐹 Lemmy	79	🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🐘 Mastodon	74	🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟣 PeerTube	94	🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🖼 Pixelfed	42	🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
🔵 Bluesky	14	🟥🟥🟥
🟥 Reddit	3	🟥

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[+] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Top Provider User Share: bsky.social ≈ 99% → Score: 0/30
Top Provider Content Share: Nearly all content on bsky.social → Score: 0/30
Self-Hosting: Server: PDS hosting possible but very niche and poorly documented → Score: 4/20
Self-Hosting: Client: Mostly official client; some 3rd party → Score: 10/20

Total: 14/100

Interesting score

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[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 5 points 1 year ago

The scoring system isn't perfect, and is subjective, but it's a good starting point to try and measure if something is decentralised.

I forsee a lot of big companies pretending to be Open-Source and decentralised because it's good for profits. Just like they pretend to care about Gay rights etc. When it suites them

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[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 6 points 1 year ago

I like the wiki definition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralization Decentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those related to planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group and given to smaller factions within it.

Based on this and other definitions I've seen, Bluesky is NOT decentralised.

I struggle to see how a platform of which 99.96% of it's users are controlled by one entity is Decentralised.