Post AhwGgcfPCoa0esdTQO by mat@friendica.exon.name
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 (DIR) Post #AhwGgbtY4kIaGSFFpY by rwg@aoir.social
       2024-04-30T18:08:36Z
       
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       Latest #FOSSAcademic post: "Decentralization or Noncentralization, Bluesky or the Fediverse?"https://fossacademic.tech/2024/04/30/DecentralizedNoncentralized.htmlIn which I contrast decentralization with noncentralization by looking at #Bluesky's approach versus that of the #fediverse. [Responses to this post will appear as comments on my blog unless you set privacy to followers-only or higher]
       
 (DIR) Post #AhwGgcfPCoa0esdTQO by mat@friendica.exon.name
       2024-05-01T12:05:25Z
       
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       It's nice to see a mention of Relays as the defining design feature of Bluesky. I would argue it is even more important than Tenor or Twilio. You can remove those two and the network will still function, but that's not true about Relays.I would offer Matrix as an example to challenge the decentralised/noncentralised distinction. It's still very much centralised around Element. But they make their money selling entire networks to governments, promising to deliver "digital sovereignty". It's not easy to unilaterally "alter the deal" when your customers have, at the end of the day, nukes. So it is possible to irrecovably decentralise and become noncentralised.