p (@p@pixelfed.social)
Feld und Berge
#mountains #snowypeaks #alps #wintervibes #naturelovers #mountainview #snowlandscape #frosty #coldbeauty #wintermagic #outdoorphotography #scenicview #naturephotography #adventureawaits #travelgram #wanderlust #majestic #exploremore #bluesky
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r (@r@fed.brid.gy)
This beautiful guy just hanging out in my backyard... #bluesky #butterflies #monarchbutterfky #nature
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item (@item@libera.site)
#Bluesky #Statistics 2026-02-24
Number of federated users: 69 266
Number of webmentions: 19 402
Number of new federated users last day: 49
Number of new webmentions last day: 8
#Fediverse
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r (@r@fed.brid.gy)
🔴 Permis de rêver ? ✅ a7productions.blogsp... #Linkedin #World #Voyages #Photography #Travel #A7Radio #Podcasts #Bluesky #Threads #France #Pinterest
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mackuba (@mackuba@martianbase.net)
I still can't believe the Manchester City football team had their #bluesky account self-hosted on their own PDS before I did
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mastodonmigration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
Bluesky and Wide Decentralization (cont.)
5) This thread addresses implications regarding linear vs. quadratic scaling. For more see https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/ (see section on quadratic scaling), and here https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116088076918635941
6) This is not a general critique 'hating on Bluesky'. The motive is to call attention to a technical characteristic of ATProto that may be at odds with how the network is commonly understood.
8/fin
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mastodonmigration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
Bluesky and Wide Decentralization (cont.)
Notes:
1) 'Decentralization' here refers fully independent services.
2) 'Independent services' are services that do not rely on other network resources, and can access the entire network.
3) ATProto has many splendid features. The focus here is just on the decentralization of independent services.
4) Would love to be proven wrong. Please correct any misapprehensions.
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mastodonmigration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
Bluesky and Wide Decentralization (cont.)
Why does it matter?
It matters because the entire rationale for wide decentralization is power sharing to protect the network from a single entity or a small number of bad actors using their control over the network to assert a political agenda.
Bluesky/AT protocol does not, and structurally can not, afford the same level of protection as widely decentralized networks.
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mastodonmigration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
Bluesky and Wide Decentralization (cont.)
This high entry cost means that, unlike Mastodon, Bluesky can never be a widely distributed network of small independent servers. Instead, ATProto facilitates a very few, big 'gods eye view' services with attached clusters of dependent components.
This means future decentralization of Bluesky, will always be dependent upon relatively large service providers.
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mastodonmigration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
Bluesky and Wide Decentralization (cont.)
Second, going forward, every independent service will continue to bear a portion of costs associated with the growth of the overall network.
Lets imagine five independent services, each of 40 million users. Each one would have a portion of cost proportional to all 200 million users. Plus, anyone that tried to start their own independent service, no matter how small, would have this same cost hurdle.
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mastodonmigration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
Bluesky and Wide Decentralization (cont.)
This has big implications.
First, it makes creating an independent service very expensive. Every fully independent ATProto service must incur costs proportional to all 40 million Bluesky PBC users. This is something Blacksky wrestled with to create the first full scale independent full scale ATProto service.
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mastodonmigration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
Bluesky and Wide Decentralization (cont.)
With Mastodon/ActivityPub independent service cost relates to the number of instance users, so small decentralized services are very low cost.
With Bluesky/ATProto some components can be distributed fairly well, like users storing their own data, but other components, like full scale relays, necessarily have a cost proportional to the number of users on the whole network, making small and medium size services expensive.
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