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Re:Bluesky Showed Everyone’s Ass by bombcar on Friday May 05, 2023 @04:45PM (#35834942)
The best you can get is something like DNS or email, which are "decentralized" in theory but quasi-centralized in practice.

Which is much better than other systems; "twitter but like email" is a reasonable goal.

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Re:Bluesky Showed Everyone’s Ass by thinkmassive on Friday May 05, 2023 @05:16PM (#35835242)
You can get more decentralization than those services provide, but not without sacrificing usability and/or security.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko's_triangle

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Re:Bluesky Showed Everyone’s Ass by bombcar on Friday May 05, 2023 @05:35PM (#35835422)
One key to a successful decentralized system is not being able to spam with it; if someone learned how to spam using BGP or DNS we'd all be screwed.
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