YSK: Before she was the CEO of BlueSky Jay Graeber worked in cryptocurrency
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In 2015, Graber began working as a software engineer for SkuChain in Mountain View, California. She then worked in a factory in Moses Lake, Washington, where she soldered bitcoin mining equipment. In 2016, she began working as a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency.
So lately I have been trying to figure out why people are calling BlueSky decentralized and I noticed that fun fact. It made me realize how cryptocurrencies are something else that was often technically "decentralized" but in reality controlled by a single person or group.
In case it's also not known, Jack Dorsey who helped found BlueSky is a big cryptocurrency booster.
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in reply to mannycalavera • • •Because however one feels about blockchain tech and its future, past companies within the crypto industry are notorious for selling the moon, being shady, and cashing out early. 'ZCash' appears to be a good example, particularly because a small group exerts such a high level of control over it.
And if the parallel holds, and at least some of that applies Jay Gaeber's own personal experience and expectations of what a company's trajectory should look like, it doesn't bode well for Bluesky.
James R Kirk
in reply to mannycalavera • • •Because the claims of people involved with cryptocurrency are historically very untrustworthy, that's why.
The thing that got me interested is that BlueSky says it's "decentralized" but the more I look into it, it's only "decentralized" using a very narrow, highly technical definition of the term "decentralized".
Cryptocurrency is the same. People with a financial stake in cryptocurrency often say it is "decentralized" but it's only true if you accept their extremely narrow definitions of what that word means.
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in reply to James R Kirk • • •I keep seeing people ask why people call Bluesky decentralised. I never see people call Bluesky decentralised.
(Okay, "never" isn't quite correct, I've seen the term used in relation to Bluesky maybe a handful of times but you make it sound like that's their main selling point)
James R Kirk
in reply to Lumidaub • • •I find that surprising, because BlueSky uses that term: bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2…
Jay Graeber herself .
Here is the Verge calling it decentralized: theverge.com/23686778/bluesky-…
Here is NYT calling it decentralized: nytimes.com/2024/11/22/technol…
Here is CNN calling decentralized: cnn.com/2023/04/28/tech/bluesk…
Bluesky’s CEO wants to build a Musk-proof, decentralized version of Twitter
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in reply to James R Kirk • • •For me the mistrust on bluesky started when it was so easily adopted as "twitter" alternative, mastodon being just there struggling for that.
In order to achieve that a lot of money and influence have been moved around. People didn't organically moved, they were influenced to move there. I don't trust that.