This is a must-read thread for understanding Bluesky.
RSS is to Google what PDSs are to Bluesky. RSS and PDSs are open/decentralized, Google/Bluesky are not decentralized.

This is a must-read thread for understanding Bluesky.
RSS is to Google what PDSs are to Bluesky. RSS and PDSs are open/decentralized, Google/Bluesky are not decentralized.
https://bsky.app/profile/dustyweb.bsky.social/post/3lbkoosv57224

Echoing this: Bluesky only supports *centralized* decentralized identifiers (did:web and did:plc). Yes you read that right. 🤨 🚩🚩🚩

They could have easily supported Web3 based dids (and still could yet!)...all they would have to do is run a single node on their already centralized AppView or heck just send a few bucks to Infura.

Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems. B4: Stanford EE / Illinois ECE

Echoing this: Bluesky only supports *centralized* decentralized identifiers (did:web and did:plc). Yes you read that right. 🤨 🚩🚩🚩

They could have easily supported Web3 based dids (and still could yet!)...all they would have to do is run a single node on their already centralized AppView or heck just send a few bucks to Infura.
https://bsky.app/profile/dustyweb.bsky.social/post/3lbks5uqins24

The blog post is quite good.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/