Social network Bluesky, a competitor to X, Threads, Mastodon, and others, is opening up its doors with today's news that the network is now opening up
    • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

      Then users need to spin up their own instance, right? Then all their posts stay backed up if they choose?

      Seems like a mediocre problem to get bent out of shape enough to move to a centralized platform.

      • s0ckpuppet@kbin.social
        5·
        9 months ago

        Completely impractical for most people but this advice gets unironically thrown around all the time. And evangelists still wonder why regular people think the fediverse and particularly Mastodon are convoluted af.

        • hansl@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          I think people are confusing centralized with federated. Federation has benefits but Mastodon is not decentralized. There is duplication of data but it’s not the same.