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Kirpy | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That too, but even with the other parts. They have all the power and that's the important part.
Member twitters "decentralized" beginning? How about hangouts?
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matt | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 All it takes is one person to stand up and build a new app with a different server and that goes away. It’s very centralized in practice today yea, but that can change fast…..or not. Depends on whether someone pushes it.
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Kirpy | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Hope they do but many may fear they'll start from nothing more than a server and no connections if Bluesky deems them dangerous for whatever reason.

Take the risk and self censor with Bluesky for access to more content, or build on nostr and allow total freedom knowing you'll be able to connect to at leased %90 of the more limited user base.
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matt | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Bluesky’s separation of moderation from hosting does reduce the chance of that pretty substantially. Unlike mastodon, where everyone is constantly screaming for servers to block each other, users can opt to do so without the operator taking that decision. Sure, the operator could as well, but the fact that they don’t have to (even if they think the content is objectionable) is pretty important imo.

But the only thing that sets nostr apart here is that clients connect to multiple servers. That’s….a very simple feature to add to any social protocol? They could just add that and be done with it and then we’d have nothing. Not sure they will, but…
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Kirpy | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Not seeing why they have to. They could let the individual tusks decided for themselves deleting content illegal for them to host. They don't though. Then again is another beast where the users seem to want it. 🤷‍♀️