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Bluesky is cracking down on parody accounts and impersonators (sea.mashable.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's federated in name only. It would cost millions in storage and networking to set up another Bluesky node because each node is essentially a full mirror (not that you couldn't code custom filters or something I'd guess?).

No one is ever going to bother unless conservatives want to set up their own server where they can't be banned for trolling.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

they couldnt anyway, because bluesky wont release the relay code or interact with foreign relays. theres nothing federating or decentralized about it.

e. i love their answer when you call them out on it.. its 'but our design takes too many resources to federate! but someday, we will release the code!'

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So it's basically as federated as a fediverse server with federation turned off lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And that's basically what Truth Social actually is, and no one claims that Trump's server is federated.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

The relay code is here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo/tree/main/cmd/bigsky

And according to this you can host everything except “AppView”: https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Really? Can you point me to where they have said things along these lines?

Why are more people not pointing out they say federation is basically impossible, so that’s why they are not doing it…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

From my perspective, plenty of people are pointing it out. One of the authors of activitypub Christine Lemmer-Webber talked about it in depth in a blog post: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/