alt Hacker NewsTruth is if mastodon.social gets ddosd the same as Bluesky I can still use the rest of the network fine. Proof is in the pudding. tons of instances that make up the fabric of redundancy. I think most people would be served better if Bluesky acted differently early with their rollout in a sharded manner?
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yangm97 • last Friday at 1:40 PM
This is half true. If mastodon.social goes down every single one of the accounts made on that instance go down as well. In truly decentralized protocols you own your identity and can take it elsewhere, for instance, in Nostr and SSB, a relay/pub going down is no big deal since you can connect to other servers and maintain communications.
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throwaway290 • last Friday at 12:27 PM
Blacksky and other instances of bluesky are not affected, what are you talking about?
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True. The only 'distributed' part of bluesky is in the PR. Otherwise there'd be more instances.
My mastodon account is not even on mastodon.social, because why would I, when I could have a home server closer to home