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Bummer that all three bluesky links in the intro are dead links now, and the author's bluesky account appears to be deactivated: https://bsky.app/profile/shrey
by cowpig 1y ago
Bummer that all three bluesky links in the intro are dead links now, and the author's bluesky account appears to be deactivated:
https://bsky.app/profile/shreyanjain.net https://bsky.app/profile/shreyanjain.net
- nunobrito 1y agoBy contrast, NOSTR comments continue to work just fine. Quite telling between centralized vs decentralized environments. NOSTR is indeed more resilient.
- cowpig 1y agoI'm not sure I would necessarily draw that conclusion. If the author intentionally deactivated their Bluesky account, does the fact that he can successfully do that on Bluesky lead to the conclusion that it's less resilient?
- gdulli 1y agoThe comment makes so little sense that it could only be intended as a dumb gotcha from someone who thinks they're fighting in some sort of culture war about the Twitter succession. Ignoring is better than encouraging.
- nunobrito 1y agoWelcome to decentralization. That really means that once you publish something, the internet won't forget it. It is OK if you prefer walled gardens, other people prefer the outdoors.
- jrm4 1y agoI think you've nailed a problem with all of these, they would make "deleting your stuff" HARDER. What's stopping the rogue node from saving all your stuff forever? I think "trying to make a thing that can work through rogue or stupid nodes" is just prohibitively harder than "work on making nodes more reliable" (which I absolutely grant is extremely hard.)
- plq 1y ago> What's stopping the rogue node from saving all your stuff forever? Nothing. You must always have this in mind when posting online: It's impossible to ensure that data is deleted and gone forever.
- jrm4 1y agoRight, I mean, I was asking rhetorically. Taking this idea further -- this is the sort of thing that really makes me consider whether or not ATProto might be literally the worst idea in all of social media. Which is to say "can track you just as intrusively as any private service, but now your history is cryptographically signable and even EASIER to share and move everywhere"
- nunobrito 1y agoThe difference is a single point of failure (centralization) vs multiple copies of the same posts all over the internet (decentralization). Didn't even took a year to see where the texts are still readable today.
- danabramov 1y agoThe author wanted to take down their account (to take a break) so this is actually working as designed. The takedown was issued from the author’s repository (which they control), and the downstream app server acknowledged the request.