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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.


Why are American chips ‘no longer safe and reliable’?




Why are American chips ‘no longer safe and reliable’?