• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      7 hours ago

      One is a product with investors selling itself on promises of decentralization (bluesky), the other is a genuine community tool (mastodon) that actually provides decentralization.

        • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          4 hours ago

          There are a million ways open platforms can be undermined, especially when serious money stands to be gained from it. See basically all of human history as exhibit A…

        • dan@upvote.au
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          5 hours ago

          Not 100% sure but I don’t think anything would stop either a fork or a new app that uses the same protocol.