...bUt It HaS fUlL sEaRcH (ignore other fediverse clients.. because.. reasons...)

...AnD iT lOoKs MoRe LiKe TwItTeR

...aNd I gOt An InViTe So I aRe TeH iMpOrTaNtZ

..yea.. no. Keep your BlueSky... I'm good...

if I got banned from bluesky, I would simply go to another instance

/s

This is pretty much everybody’s TOS.

Pretty sure most Masto servers can do the same.

entiendo que se refiere a BlueSky, que viene a ser el servidor de esa red social, pero nada te impediría tener usuario en otras redes sociales que utilicen ese protocolo, no?

Si fuera asi, en realidad no es muy diferente a Mastodon.

@psotle Actually, it's VERY different!

Google effectively owns your account.

With AT protocol, the account owner is supposed to be you.

@psotle This is my point. You don't know what "own your account" means in the context of AT protocol and Bluesky.

Which means the one advantage that Bluesky supposedly has over every decentralized service that exists is completely lost on you.

And the fact you believe account terminations are par for the course -- despite it being contrary to Bluesky's incredible claim -- shows you probably don't care.

That's fine -- but what do you believe is the point of Bluesky?

@psotle

Good to push back agenst the signal-to-noise issue we are having :)

my favorite anecdote to tell about Google starts a few months ago when I decided to try some of these cool new Linux distros that do rolling releases. I was always a debian/ubuntu fan but I wanted the new shiny as a daily driver.

This means I had to actually use the OS’s for a couple days to really get a feel for them. In an attempt to ‘burn the ships’ I deleted my old install each time. I quickly learned that the almighty Google did not approve of this activity. They quickly flagged my accounts as compromised. Nothing I could do would convince them I was the legit owner. The only choice was to stop attempting to login for a week, at which point they decided I was telling the truth.

Instead I started the process of removing all of their properties from my online presence. It costs about $USD 80 a year now but not only am I in control but self-hosting is blazing fast compared to their adtech-choked experience. Now I am trying to get my family to switch in order to increase the return on that $USD 80/annum

For email I can’t say enough good things about fastmail.com. At $60/year that is most of the annual expense. They let me use my own domain and all of my other services tie into it for email (think password resets and notifications). They support FIDO2 authentication and their API integration has been more then enough for all my needs.

Nextcloud is what I’ve started using for sharing large files and collaboration. I am pretty new at this but so far I am very impressed with the functionality. I run it on a cheap VPS that I forgot to figure into the annual cost but I use VPS for many other things as well such as my blog and hosting my own pleroma instance, which we are interacting thru right now.

It helps that I love doing all this stuff and so not only do I consider my labor to be free, it’s actually a source of fun that I’d be happy to pay for.

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@skotchygut @psotle I've gone through this process numerous times. Every time I switch distros. I've finally got fed up. I'm dropping google. It's just not worth the headaches. I guess there is more than one price for "free."

There are lots of options that are much better than what google offers. Some are "free" some aren't. Paying is no guarantee there aren't creeps in the bushes siphoning off data.

I don’t expect guarantees. I want control. I want a business relationship. I want a contact to reach out to when there is a problem. I want respect as a customer.

Perfection is the enemy of good.