• melroy
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    519 days ago

    Bluesky is not as decentralized as you think… Just saying.

    • @[email protected]
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      239 days ago

      That is actually an advantage. Centralized platforms are able to achieve larger audiences, increasing the chance that I will be able to find content I actually care about.

      • @[email protected]
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        319 days ago

        Only as long as the centralized authority stays aligned with you. Then you have the same problem.

        • @[email protected]
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          28 days ago

          Pretty much how Bluesky took off at all. It’s just the polarization of the platform style reflecting the polarization of society: Twitter/X went right-wing so the (center-)left made their own platform. It’s the same thing the right did when Twitter was politically censoring right-wing content before Musk bought it and Trump made Truth Social, the only difference being that Bluesky got the Big Tech and mainstream media blessing. Musk said he would stop that sort of censorship but just reversed it to censor left-wing content. Nobody actually wants a truly free platform, they just want their echo chamber.

      • Todd Bonzalez
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        129 days ago

        Centralized platforms get top-down control. You’re trading your freedom for convenience.

        Stop pining for the algorithms. They’re making you stupider by guaranteeing that you only see the content you want to see, and never the content you need to see.

        • @[email protected]
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          69 days ago

          That’s giving the algorithms too much credit. They don’t encode user desires they encode user engagement bait. Like everything under our capitalist system the motivation is profit: in this case ad revenue. Sometimes positive things or agreeable things drive engagement, sometimes negative or divisive things. As long as users spend time scrolling on the platform they’ll both be given equal weight.

          As with anything profit motive driven it’s just about what makes more money not what makes more sense or what makes better outcomes. The core assumption of capitalism (at least how it’s sold) is that profit causing activity correlates with improvements to human well-being. How anyone still believes that, I’m not sure.

        • Tywèle [she|her]
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          On Bluesky you can choose which algorithm/s you want to see though and even create your own.

    • @Pilferjinx
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      9 days ago

      It just has to be better than the Nazi bar.

      • Gloomy
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        109 days ago

        That’s a very low bar.

        I’ll show myfself out.

    • @Nindelofocho
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      29 days ago

      Is bluesky not instanced? Cant you just run Bluesky PDS?