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HotGarbage

The "decentralization" of Bluesky is a joke. Despite its faults ActivityPub is superior.

pjc50

Some more background and a user report of the migration process: https://gregpak.net/2025/11/13/how-and-why-i-moved-from-a-bl... Crucially, the purpose of Blacksky is to provide a service for the (US) black community which has its own moderation decisions while being substantially interoperable. (Remember, the reasons people use one social network rather than another are almost always social first and technical second, where the social functions are enabled or hindered by the technology)

ChrisArchitect

Some previous Blacksky discussion: Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45018773

t0lo

Is this self imposed segregation?

vvpan

I'll post this as a top level comment, because I think it is crucial: A few people are saying that it is expensive to run a relay but others have done it for as low as $34/month [1]. So unless somebody presents other proof that it is expensive I would say that those posters are either wrong and trying to mislead us on purpose. Edit: actually the article links to somebody doing it for $18/month. [1] https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lo7a2a4qxg2l