alt Hacker NewsSorry, but this analogy is very misleading, no one browses websites through Google's servers.
For example, right now in my URL bar I read "news.ycombinator.com", not "google.com/profile/news.ycombinator.com".
If Google goes down now I can keep browsing this website and all the other websites I have in all my other tabs as if nothing had happened.
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pfraze • yesterday at 10:06 PM
Technically you can still view the posts directly from the PDS. It’s just uninteresting compared to web pages
evbogue • yesterday at 10:06 PM
Do you have ideas about how Bluesky could decentralize?
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Does Google Reader help you make sense of it? It’s more like each app is like its own Google Reader. And indeed you were able to access the same posts via other apps at that time of outage.