How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
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This is a pretty great, long form post about the structure of Bluesky, and how it’s largely kinda pretending to be decentralized at the moment. I’m not trying to make a dig at it. I’ve enjoyed the platform myself for a while, but it’s good to learn more about how it actually works.

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  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️English
    9•9 hours ago

    I saw a comment the other day about this saying you’d need like over 4terrabytes of storage to run a BlueSky instance of your own, and that it’s growing every day. That’s fucking insane.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      9•8 hours ago

      That’s addressed in the blog post. She was saying it was currently 5TB and growing. So anyone wanting to set up a server would need to pay for that space, and that’s not cheap.

      • @[email protected]English
        7•8 hours ago

        It’s also not, like, unattainable

        But it’s definitely well beyond what any hobbyist is going to set up in a whim