• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    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.

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        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…

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        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.