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Jaguars Place QB Trevor Lawrence on Injured Reserve




in reply to tavostator

TL;DR: Bluesky isn’t feasibly federated due to hardware demands of self-hosting the relay—which would require every instance to host the same, synced copy of the entirety of Twitter everywhere—among other things, but is great at providing what its committed corporation calls a centralized “credible exit“: “if Bluesky Social PBC goes out of business or loses users’ trust, other providers can step in to provide an equivalent service using the same dataset and the same protocols”
in reply to Aatube

That seems less than ideal. And yet, here we are with it being way more popular than Mastodon.

Were people really that damn confused over "which instance do I join"?

in reply to P03 Locke

Could be as simple as blue sky having the money behind it to advertise it more
in reply to smeg

Yeah I could see this being a big factor. Advertising money can also mean directly paying people to use it, and hoping some of their followers might come along.
in reply to P03 Locke

People don’t care about decentralization as long as they have a credible exit; in fact, many may prefer the features of centralization. Bluesky also has an algorithm.
in reply to P03 Locke

I think people dislike the experience.

For example, on Mastodon your profile discoverability is disabled in settings by default. I guess it's needed to optimize the hosting cost, but people also like being heard. Also people don't know who to follow since there are no algorithms or starter packs right now. And if you have a post from another instance, you need a browser extension to open it on yours. That's the complains I saw.

As a Mastodon user, I hope we solve them!








French government toppled in historic no-confidence vote




Israeli soldiers have been sexually assaulting Palestinian women for decades. Now they're speaking out


in reply to geneva_convenience

I feel bad saying this, but I already assumed as much. Whenever stuff like this happens, assault becomes a pastime for them. It's disgusting, but not surprising.

in reply to ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]

I mean they really are gonna have to be wonder weapons given that UK can't even produce steel anymore. Hard to make regular weapons that way.


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Threads takes an important baby step toward true fediverse integration


cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/19842291
in reply to misk

Remember: it takes two to tango. Threads might want to federate, but a lot of Fediverse instances want nothing to do with Facebook.
in reply to misk

The slow drip of fediverse features has been frustrating, but it feels like there's finally light at the end of the tunnel. It's been absolutely amazing even having the level of interop we have between Mastodon <-> Threads, and it's about to get so much better. I feel like a whole lot of people out there who think they're getting what they need out of Bluesky (news, memes, friends, whatever) would get much the same experience if they were just using the fediverse as ActivityPub intended (aka sign up for a variety of services and wire 'em up!).


in reply to NightOwl

At this point you have to ask yourself this tough question. What's more important for the future of the nation, its youth or to regain control of the whole Ukrainian territories?
in reply to skhayfa

Kicking out the US puppets who led to this and who keep this on.
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