> "Additionally, if a Bluesky server goes down, their way of keeping access to your data is by storing all of it on your device!"
This seems troubling, if it's accurate.
[I've edited the above quote to remove some all-caps and exclamation points.]
This seems troubling, if it's accurate.
[I've edited the above quote to remove some all-caps and exclamation points.]
The author totally glosses over that and scoffs at it being a real problem both in the thread linked and here in the comments, yet real people have experienced the extraordinary pain of watching their accounts evaporate overnight because of some capricious server admin. It's a total nonstarter for ever using Mastodon.
1) If you add image files and especially video files to the mix, the size of your data can get huge.
2) Smartphone users especially don't have a ton of free storage space.
3) In general, people aren't great at maintaining their own backups.
The question is why a so-called distributed network can't maintain distributed copies of user data, rather than forcing the burden onto the users.