LBRY is very infamous for context because while it's decentralized, the documentation is deliberately incomplete and you can't exactly host your own nodes. The only P2P hosting is from LBRY clients, and the rest are all Reflector nodes hosted by Odysee and the like.
https://nodes.madiator.com/
What they're pushing for is a "whitelist", a "federation of allies", or worse GMail. They want only people they can approve of to federate, they do not want people they do not like in their cool kids club. The silver lining is that it's going to die off at that rate because the thing keeping Poast/Gab/etc. going is they're "Twitter for people banned from Twitter" and BlueSky is "Twitter for people mad at Musk" which isn't the same by any means.
Look at ResetEra and how it's mocked by most of the internet for having the worst moderation of any website on the internet, where posting is walking on eggshells. BlueSky will never take off if it has the reputation of "ResetEra but social media" like mastodon.social has.
https://youtu.be/GRi3OJ0DYqs
@PhenomX6 @alex
>You know, this is worrying me because it reminds me of LBRY in a bad way.
LBRY isn't unique in that regard. A lot of blockchain based social networks like Bastyon have the same problem. In fact, the only truly decentralized blockchain I know of is Monero. Even Bitcoin's lightening network is mostly based in Washington D.C, iirc.
>or worse GMail.
How is Gmail worse? I know they making it hard for people to set up their own email-servers due to their spam policy, but they don't whitelist. They seem to only blacklist your IP range if they catch a server that seems to be solely used for spam. It's still possible to run your own E-mail server and still communicate with Gmail, assuming your range isn't blacklisted.
As for email it's just a pain to get them to communicate with GMail. There are horror stories everywhere about it.
@PhenomX6 @alex
>It's less with the blockchain part and more the centralized part.
I know, but a lot of people assume that anything blockchain-related is 100% decentralized.
>As for email it's just a pain to get them to communicate with GMail. There are horror stories everywhere about it.
Surprisingly, Gmail actually has a troubleshooting guide for those having issues with their servers communicating to Gmail (I was expecting "why don't you just use your domain on our servers"). I don't know if I trust it though. I never ran an email server before. I've heard that running a mail server in general is a pain, even without the Gmail problem.
