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@mcc "This is why I believe Bluesky was never meant to be federated."

100%. Bluesky was developed as a project within twitter when it was still twitter, under Jack Dorsey, with the threat of a buyout from Musk or other parties looming. It was fully intended to replace twitter's infrastructure, but couldn't be done since the buyout happened too quickly.

@cwebber probably put it best when she described it as less of decentralized network and more of a product with an escape hatch. If we (Dorsey and his engineers) don't like management anymore, we can make all the user data portable, take a pile of capital and duplicate twitter somewhere else. The project is simply too top-heavy to replicate without a significant foundation behind it.

The only reason it's really "decentralized" is because cryptocurrencies are, and Dorsey and all of bsky's founders are either crypto-enthusiasts or actual coiners. It's the reason there are so many insane design choices which took place at the development stage that don't make any sense for a social network, but are that way because that's how a crypto-coder would make it. Being decentralized may have just been a side effect of that mentality.

@cmconseils I couldn't even tell if you were wrong, this one is tough to verify or falsify because there were like, 5 different "original" versions of Tetris.

Did they mean the PC version? Between NA and EU there were two different distributors who each made their own version, not counting the original Russian freeware version.

The "original" Nintendo version? There are three of those. One Nintendo made for the NES console, one for the GameBoy, and an unlicensed NES version made by Atari that had to be recalled over a rights dispute.

Did *any one* of those releases have a manual that gave names to the blocks? I don't know! Maybe?! 😂

@denschub @vkc Yep, DMs or "Private mentions" on Mastodon can be exploited using a similar vector. The client can say this message should be readable only to this/these users, but you can write a client which doesn't respect the protocol and view them anyway. It's a strong argument for why DMs should probably not exist on decentralized platforms that do not or cannot use E2EE.