Long detailed description of whether Bluesky is decentralized (it isn't) and the challenge it poses in the future. One significant area of concern revolves around identifiers. "Bluesky controls users' keys, and therefore even if users 'move away' they must trust Bluesky to perform this move on their behalf. And even if Bluesky delegates authority to that user to control their identity information in the future, there is still a problem in that Bluesky will always have control over that user's key, and thus their identity future." This problem with Bluesky is an opportunity for the fediverse, which should try to get ahead of the problem and embrace fully decentralized IDs. There's a good section near the end of this post with more specific advice for the fediverse.
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