▲ 108 ▼ Bluesky is more open than you think. (lemmy.dbzer0.com) submitted 1 year ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 84 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 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 permalink fedilink source parent [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (1 reply)
[–] 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent