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At least one reasonable take about this bullshit according to which "PDSes are websites and Bluesky is Google". The most obvious error in the analogy is that on Bluesky no one connects to PDSes, while Google points visitors directly to each website's servers so they can continue having a relationship with those servers even after Google ceases to exist or bans those websites. The analogy would only work if Google had succeeded in implementing that plan they had some years ago for serving all websites from their own servers and that would be much faster if only all the websites implemented some HTML sub-standards they came up with.

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fiatjaf _@fiatjaf.com 1 year ago

The analogy also disregards the fact that in the current web people do not just use Google. There are dozens of other search engines, and people find websites through other websites, recommendations from people they know -- or, incredible!, people they follow on various social media platforms. But Bluesky doesn't care, it wants everything to go through the Bluesky central server. Even if you want to access a blog from someone you already know and have been following for years, you still will have to go ask Google to render that blog for you and everything you read will have to necessarily come directly from Google servers.

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