Henrik Carlsson posted this
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and tagged it with The open web There is a lot of love for the CEO of Bluesky, and her claims of it being billionaire-proof, floating by on part of the web at the moment. I’ve not used Bluesky and I haven’t kept up with things on the web properly over the past year or so, but I think Dave Winer makes a good argument that it really isn’t.
But [Mastodon’s] federation ability adds enough complexity that most people prefer Bluesky, which doesn’t have those complications. There are always tradeoffs in technology. You can have flexibility but it comes at a price. Bluesky would have you believe you can have the flexibility of Mastodon without paying the price.
This is, and continues to be, the problem with a federated or decentralized social web. It will be more complex and complicated than a centralized one. We do need to work on making it less so, but more importantly we probably need to convince the ”normies” that a little bit of extra complexity might be worth it.
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