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Comment by immibis

What do you think would happen if the Bluesky company suddenly blocked everyone but https://bsky.app/ servers from using their relays?

And what if, before they did that, they updated the PDS code so it blocked all relays except for their one?

I'm not asking what you would do. I'm asking what would happen because of what everyone does. I think the name "Bluesky" would refer to the fully centralized bsky.app, and 99.9% of users would never notice a difference. Users who had other PDSes would either quit (nobody noticing their departure) or sign up to bsky.app like everyone else. The events of Twitter show it's probably the latter - people bent over backwards to comply with Musk to keep their accounts.

parent immibis 1 year ago

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