Comment by southerntofu
2 days ago
> This is precisely why there are multiple protocols out there and bridges between them.
Yes, that's great! What's not great is Bluesky attempting a hostile takeover on federated and decentralized social networks. It's been advertised from day 1 as an alternative to centralized silos and it's a lie. [0]
To be fair, projects like Blacksky try to decentralize it (except the identity server, as it's impossible??), and there's now a vibrant developer community around ATProto. That doesn't make the centralization and false marketing claims any less problematic.
Develop the protocol you want. Don't lure my friends into it by pretending it's something that it's not.
"lure" comes off as real biased, what reasons do your friends give?
> What's not great is Bluesky attempting a hostile takeover on federated and decentralized social networks.
Can you clarify this? Am I unaware of some active, intentional campaign?