No, you can’t. You can have a custom domain (“PDS” is the term they invented for this) but it still relies on bluesky’s servers.

Don’t let them distract with with the “whattabout matrix”. The Matrix Foundation is not a social media company, and furthermore it’s a nonprofit.

Bluesky is not decentralized.

You are correct. The term is called “openwashing”. Now and then bluesky employees cultists will come on Lemmy and mastodon and try to LARP that their for-profit company has our best interests in mind.

BlueSky is centralized.

It comes from this 2019 post by Mike Masnick.

Unfortunately the atprotocol is more like Profits > People > Platforms

Absolutely I was not trying to take away from your point! Cory Doctorow actually recently wrote a good piece on Wikipedia that you reminded me of.

I agree with your overall point, but Wikipedia has a singular mission. Social settings can have wildy different missions from shitposting, to hobbies, study groups, to support groups, etc. There is no singular moderation ethos that can apply to all of them, that’s why decentralization is important in social media.

We want to algorithms to work for the people, not have people slaving for the algorithms.

If a grandmother had wheels would you consider her to be a wagon?

No, please respond to the gif. If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a wagon?

BlueSky is centralized. Describing it as “federated” is being (intentionally, in your case) misleading.

ok and bluesky is literally centralized

More avoidance. You astroturfing?

I’m sorry your credibility is at zero with me. You keep avoiding the point.

I don’t understand, $600M? Is anyone using this browser?

Bazzite is based on Fedora no? This could be very cool

We’re counting hypotheticals as real now? I suppose your not-hypothetical girlfriend goes to another school too, right? Just not motivated to visit?

As you’re no doubt aware, the reason 99.9% of bluesky users are on a single server is obviously not because “nobody is motivated” to create other servers.

A meaningless “idea”. Might as well say BlueSky has “concepts of a plan”.

That’s funny and makes me with I didn’t delete my reddit account

Good read. We’re seeing a return to “social” networks. The big platforms haven’t been social for years.