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User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality (plus.flux.community)

submitted 5 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/Bluesky@lemmy.zip

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Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is like lemmy.zip banning a user on another server, and then someone complaining that using a different client (like phtn.app) that just uses lemmy.zip's api doesn't let you see them.

blacksky.app is a PDS. This stores your account. blacksky.community is a client, this literally just uses bsky.app's api. blacksky.community is soon going to make it's own api, and then link's account will be viewable again.

reddwarf.whey.party still shows the user's account.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Point remains that despite ATProto team claims there is no viable decentralized federation yet as you are forced to connect to centralized Bluesky services.

Despite Fraser’s efforts to implement his own PDS, Relay, and App View, however, Blacksky still remains partially dependent upon Bluesky’s application server, largely because while the code to implement the dataplane of posts and users within an application server is released, the open-source version is slower.

Asked about why Link had to contact Bluesky to find out what had happened to his account rather than receiving a notice, Paul Frazee, the service’s CTO, said that it was “unfortunate,” and that Bluesky needed to finish adding a feature to let users of external PDSes know if they have been banned by Bluesky labelers.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://reddwarf.whey.party/profile/spacelawshitpost.me

This relies on none of bluesky's infrastructure.

Blacksky is planning on setting up the appview.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes and by design it is subpar experience in comparison to Bluesky, at least for now. It's their own words, not mine.

[–] airportline@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Once Blacksky's AppView launches, can we retire the "Bluesky is not really federated" discourse?