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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.ziptoFediverse@lemmy.worldBluesky does federation-washing
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    4 months ago

    Yep.

    Its ‘federated’ as long as you ignore a single massive chokepoint controlled by one company that allows them to block/ban/censor users of any part of the system.

    So functionally, their ‘federation’ system is actually just a false marketing/propoganda campaign that may also result in crowd sourcing some server costs.

    It’s psuedo-federation, along the lines of a psuedo-historian or psuedo-scientist: They pretend to be something they are not, in such a way that makes them seem trustworthy when they are in fact not.





  • sigh

    This has also been my experience with non profit c suite.

    I used to be co-lead of the data department for a non profit that dealt with PII… including medical data… spent a lot of time making sure we were doing things right.

    … And then one day, one of the board members asked me to implement blockchain security on our postgres databases, in an in-person meeting.

    I buried my head in my hands, looked uo, and told her “No, the blockchain is insanely insecure, its easily de-obfuscated… and it would make our systems run somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 times more slowly… if its even possible to implement postgres running through or on … some kind of blockchain.”

    She did a fake corpo smile and ‘politely’ ended the meeting.

    … I wanted to strangle her to death.