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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol

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  • It comes from this 2019 post by Mike Masnick.

    Unfortunately the atprotocol is more like Profits > People > Platforms

  • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • Absolutely I was not trying to take away from your point! Cory Doctorow actually recently wrote a good piece on Wikipedia that you reminded me of.

  • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • I agree with your overall point, but Wikipedia has a singular mission. Social settings can have wildy different missions from shitposting, to hobbies, study groups, to support groups, etc. There is no singular moderation ethos that can apply to all of them, that's why decentralization is important in social media.

    We want to algorithms to work for the people, not have people slaving for the algorithms.

  • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • If a grandmother had wheels would you consider her to be a wagon?

  • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • No, please respond to the gif. If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a wagon?

    BlueSky is centralized. Describing it as "federated" is being (intentionally, in your case) misleading.

  • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • ok and bluesky is literally centralized

  • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • More avoidance. You astroturfing?

  • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • I'm sorry your credibility is at zero with me. You keep avoiding the point.

  • The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired

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  • I don't understand, $600M? Is anyone using this browser?

  • Pocket Casts is getting ads

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  • Nothing big is wrong with them, the drama got blown way out of proportion to a frankly insane degree.

  • reddit has seriously turned into facebook levels of bare minumum / advertiser friendly front page

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  • My rule of thumb is to delete any service with "inserted content" I'm unable to block

  • Fedora 44 Change Proposal Aims To Ensure A Nice Wine/Proton + NTSYNC Experience

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  • Bazzite is based on Fedora no? This could be very cool

  • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • We're counting hypotheticals as real now? I suppose your not-hypothetical girlfriend goes to another school too, right? Just not motivated to visit?

    As you're no doubt aware, the reason 99.9% of bluesky users are on a single server is obviously not because "nobody is motivated" to create other servers.

  • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • A meaningless "idea". Might as well say BlueSky has "concepts of a plan".

  • What fediverse/social network, concept/feature/UI do you enjoy the most?

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  • Nope just ghost.org. They're a Substack competitor but have been embracing activitypub/the open web. It's nice to see.

  • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • That's funny and makes me with I didn't delete my reddit account

  • The Last Days Of Social Media | as AI slop and sexbots kill mass social media networks, "a billion little gardens" sprout in their place | NOEMA

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  • Good read. We're seeing a return to "social" networks. The big platforms haven't been social for years.

  • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • portable identity

    So like when bluesky starts having to pay back their investors I can portable my identity to.... one of the other equally populated blueskies out there?