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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 07:47:26 JST mcc

   Ah… the decentralized social network that goes down completely when one centralized server goes down, is down again

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 07:47:26 JST mcc

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     What's actually happening right now is the Bluesky *website* is broken but the *phone app* still works. I propose the following theory:

     Mastodon is "horizontally decentralized"; this means if one part of the network goes down the other parts continue working.

     Bluesky is "vertically decentralized"; they separated each tech stack component into a slice that can be hosted by a different company. This means if any part of the network goes down they ALL stop working, because the layers interconnect

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 12:40:43 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @mcc it's webscale!

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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 00:17:35 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • :blobcatflower:
     @lucy @mcc i detected a funny joke in the post you replied to
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     :blobcatflower: (methyltheobromine@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 00:17:37 JST :blobcatflower:

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     @mcc or, you just self-host/join another instance than mastosoc :alainstatic:
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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 00:17:38 JST mcc

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     Here is the exciting thing about "vertical decentralization", Bluesky's core innovation: since your PDS and your "app view" can be hosted by two different entities, this means the pool of people who can make Bluesky stop working for you can be taken to a theoretical maximum. For example with Mastodon, if Eugen screws up my app doesn't work. But with Bluesky, since I self-host my PDS, if *either* I *or* Bluesky mess up, it doesn't work! *Everybody* must have a good day *at once* or there's no app