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Lee Duna ( throws_lemy@lemmy.nz )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago

Twitter’s decentralized offshoot Bluesky now has 2 million users

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Twitter’s decentralized offshoot Bluesky now has 2 million users

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Lee Duna ( throws_lemy@lemmy.nz )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago
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    can users in other instances talk with people in bluesky?

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      No because it’s not decentralized. That’s like saying Twitter is decentralized because it’s microservices communicate over https.

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        That’s what I wanted to ask. Last time I heard about their federation, their team were claiming the tests are underway in a sandbox or something. I wonder how that’s going.

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