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User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality
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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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What does this even mean?
Downstream.
As in, an unoriginal derivative.
I didn’t know there were people who saw that as a bad thing when it comes to software.
It can be good, or bad, or both, or neither, adownstream on its own is just like... derived from, based on.
But also implicit in that is that... it ... is not the same as the thing it is based on.
It either adds or removes things or does something similar but in a different way.
Probably a good and bad thing. Openly taking open source software and improving is good, copying an idea, overlaying it with a false sense of security or decentralization but really just being another version of the same thing with no real improvement is bad.