Farcaster

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The vast majority of people are not joining Bluesky because it's decentralized. They are joining a centralized app (Bluesky) that's not controlled by Elon and offers a decent UX. And that's been extraordinarily successful for them!

If that was the primary criteria, Mastodon, Nostr or Farcaster are more decentralized today.

Good write up on all the stuff that's not decentralized today on Bsky.
https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won

I think @dwr.eth is right about why people are exiting 𝕏, but wrong about why they are choosing BSky over Mastodon, Nostr or Farcaster.

The public is starting to see BSky as the "free speech" version of 𝕏 where:
"any site can remove content but nobody can truly censor any voice who wants to be heard as they can easily move among servers at ease and retain their followers." *

* this quoted text is from a tweet i'll drop in the comments and what normies refer to as "decentralized"

It's not about the technical reality that DNS or did:PLC is not as censorship resistant as ENS or Farcaster FIDs. It's about the perception that it is "sufficiently decentralized". And just as important, it is viewed as an open platform because everything is open source.

Here my personal “community notes” on this tweet: the last president had a literal meeting with the top military brass to ask them to override the election results, suspend the rule of law and arrest the Supreme Court and leaders of parliament. We have documents to prove it.…

Here's my personal “community notes” on this tweet:
If you serious about being a free speech warrior, you would promote @farcaster_xyz not @bluesky.

Your identity on Bluesky relies on DNS and tech called PLC, both can censor use of your identity, effectively deplatforming you.

chrisb (boscolo.eth)

https://x.com/boscolochris/status/1777699965931843962

💯 Haha. I had added “do you have data to support your opinion”, but cut that sentence when I realized I didn’t either. 😂

Strong disagree, but there's no way to prove either scenario.

"because everything is open source"

client open sourcing is performative, full backend open sourcing is true commitment. that's when you know if algos have any biases or weights. 

we don't do it because its likely that spammers can reverse engineer our heuristics and make the app a lot worse for good users. bluesky doesn't do it either, probably for similar reasons.