but the dm (direct message) functionality itself isn't decentralized and bluesky even mentions it/shows it that its unencrypted and centralized iirc
There is actually a technical solution to that then. Use the public channel to send/receive private messages. Every could publish a public key. Then everyone could send private messages to everyone by encrypting them with the public key of the receiver and sending them over the public channel.
Shall we try it? My public key:
-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MFwwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADSwAwSAJBAKs9CbOAxSROEdm/+QGyDLdxITTq+YdbmIlOM0jemqKvLXinnBUDeDRSGXOoCnygXLFsm6R31szySqiVunasX/8CAwEAAQ==
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----
https://anycript.com/crypto/rsa
And then pasting the encrypted version into a reply to this comment :)
But if you want decentralization some options i can recommend are matrix,simplex,session etc.
But to be honest, there is a good point that you raise about how to talk decentralized on bluesky
well, one of the ideas that I can think of right now, is that someone can use https://keyoxide.org/ and paste in their public key and also connect both bluesky and matrix and then have the keyoxide as part of something public like a comment
The problem in this is that it becomes tedious and does add more friction to the whole thing but definitely possible.
How can some party lock you out of it?