Decentralised here means keeping companies honest by avoiding lock-in. It's fine to have the centralisation if it's easy to switch. BlackSky users don't need to care about the details, but if they don't like the community they can move their data elsewhere. Try doing that with Instagram.

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dingnuts 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

They can also liberate their identity, which is the real innovation of the AT protocol

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jazzyjackson 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Didn’t they just adopt DNS? I mean I guess you have a DID people can follow ( tho afaik there’s no other identity server for resolving DIDs besides bsky app), but the way to tell that someone is who you think they are is their handle being connected to their domain

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johnecheck 3 days ago | parent [-]

did:web (DNS) is just one option for identity. did:plc is what you want, it's not reliant on ICANN or BlueSky. Any PDS should be able to resolve a did:web or did:plc.

https://atproto.com/specs/did

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ItsHarper 3 days ago | parent [-]

did:plc is currently centralized, it's 100% reliant on Bluesky. Lookups have to be done at https://plc.directory/

	▲	johnecheck 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Apologies, I was mistaken. I'd confused the self-certifying bit with decentralization. did:plc relies on trusting a central server to accept all valid events and not allow users to rewrite their history.

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bawolff 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, facebook is pretty easy to switch from, just stop going to their website.

Personally i'm a little doubtful that bluesky is decentralized in a way that matters.

	▲	bee_rider 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think Facebook is pretty useless and just not using the site is a great way to transfer away from it. But I feel like to engage with the idea of switching away constructively, I’d have to find some value in the content I had on the site.
	▲	l72 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Until you kids school uses it for organizing information for parents or that’s the only place a niche group you like is. Getting banned from Facebook means loosing access to all of that. Kinda like getting banned from YouTube could mean loss of access to email, groups, drive and a bunch of other services. Hell I’ve heard of company contractors getting banned from Google Play’s Developer and everyone in the company then getting banned from all Google services! If I get banned from a Lemmy community that doesn’t ban me from other communities or other servers and I can always run my own if I need to.