No of course Bluesky is not a scam. Maybe it's just designed by a committee?
I think the trouble is that, while they have an awesome team, they seem to have thrown out everything everyone has ever learned about building a decentralized social network.
It's like they took all of the years of over-development on Scuttlebot and IPFS and have only included the worst of it while throwing out the good parts.
Nostr is the opposite of this, because the initial messaging protocol is so amazingly simple. It's just signed posts!
Now of course if you read all of the NIPS you see the over-development thing creeping in again and it scares the crap out of the people who believe in this stuff.
The hardcore distributed social fans are disappointed because some of these Bluesky devs are/were our heroes. But now they're making this weird API and a DID format that is basically a coverup for them holding into your private keys for you.
Is that a scam? Well, it depends on if you're giving them money or not I guess, and how you feel about what they're doing with the money.
ev / Ev
npub13v…xeddx
2023-05-10 01:05:57
in reply to nevent1q…cx60
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2023-05-10 01:05:57Event JSON
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