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timconspicuous

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  • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • you need thousands of dollars

    no you don't

    Search up “Mastodon instances” and then “Bluesky instances”

    Bluesky has a different architecture, there are no "instances", it's PDSs, relays and AppViews, all of which can be and are already being self-hosted.

    they’re just jumping on the train with the billionaire who runs it

    If you mean Dorsey, he has had nothing to do with Bluesky for well over a year now because he resented them implementing moderation tools

  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • Bluesky is more open than you think.

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  • I might be wrong, but feeds get their data from relays, correct? So if you are using any of the Blacksky feeds, presumably you would indirectly be using the atproto.africa relay?

  • Regarding Mid-East-related Comments on !europe

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  • I find all of your comments here deeply shameful, especially since you are representing slrpnk.net, from your own manifesto:

    The “punk” in Solarpunk is about rebellion, counterculture, post-capitalism, decolonialism and enthusiasm.

    Yet you are using your voice here to defend state-mandated infringement of free speech, of decolonialist speech at the behest of the zionist project. I honestly think you should consider if you can still credibly administer slrpnk or alternatively if it makes sense for you to moderate a comm that is seemingly so misaligned with your professed values.

  • What about AT protocol?

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  • The main difference between Threadsky and Frontpage is that Threadsky is just yet another Bluesky re-skin, it's just regular Bluesky posts presented in a reddit-like format, whereas Frontpage has its own dedicated lexicon and doesn't ingest the Bluesky firehose at all. I think Frontpage is really neat, but it has been shown little love unfortunately, it hasn't meaningfully changed in months.

  • Elon Musk insults German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier – DW – 12/31/2024

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  • Why do we need to treat these people as if they are majesty? It's a stupid remnant of feudalism. For the privilege of being the highest ranking official they should have to endure being called a "tyrant" here and there, even if the accusations are spurious.

  • Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky

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  • While I generally avoid politics on this blog, it’s hard to ignore the political biases permeating X and BlueSky. X has veered heavily toward far-right ideologies, while BlueSky is often associated with far-left communities. This polarized landscape doesn’t work for those of us seeking a neutral space for meaningful interactions.

    lol

  • Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?

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  • Unpopular opinion here, but: as opposed to other twitter clones like Hive Social and such, that also look sleek and are simple, but didn't go anywhere, Bluesky did manage to attract a sizeable crowd of creative and talented open source indie devs that are passionate about it and build cool stuff on atproto. Whether it's custom feeds or star sign labelers or alternative clients that add more features or entirely new appviews like the oekaki board PinkSea, you get the feeling it is a pretty vibrant ecosystem and this has sustained it all these months.

    While this is true for the Fediverse as well, I think it's fair to say that there have been rumblings here about lack of direction and proper stewardship of the Fediverse and if you want this place to succeed you can't just sweep it under the rug, shrug your shoulders and say "well, people who pick Bluesky over Mastodon are just stupid".

  • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • Why not self-host your Bluesky personal data server?

  • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • Been there for over a year now and fwiw, this wave feels more sustainable than before. In previous waves, a lot of people went back to Twitter after a week because Twitter still had "the juice" and Bluesky didn't, but with 15 now million members and decent engagement, this is starting to turn around.

  • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • Seriously, I'm so tired of this "we on Mastodon are the Eloi and they on Bluesky are the Morlocks" type bs, that kind of hostility to regular users makes me not want to be on the Fediverse at all.

  • Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky

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  • Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky

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  • Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky

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  • I haven’t even found anything suggesting one could realistically selfhost it

    Check this out, this person self-hosted one for fun

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  • If we're talking about self-hosting your own personal data storage (PDS), a few hundred people are doing that, here is a list. Apparently a Raspberry Pi is sufficient to host a PDS.

  • Germany’s 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal shift from road to rail

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  • Increasing the price by almost a fifth under a "center-left" government means this thing is just doomed once the right gets into power next year

  • How Lemmy could interop with Mastodon, as imagined in Frontpage + Bluesky

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  • Sorry for the late reply, but I wanted to address your question -- I think one misunderstanding is: in a sense there are no Bluesky accounts and there are no Frontpage accounts, there are only atproto accounts. Whether you make a post on Bluesky or Frontpage or Whitewind or Smokesignal, all of them get collected in the same repository. Here is a neat atproto browser which can display this, this is the account of Frontpage founder Tom Sherman and you can find all of his collections there: https://atproto-browser.vercel.app/at/tom-sherman.com

  • How Lemmy could interop with Mastodon, as imagined in Frontpage + Bluesky

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  • Bluesky still isn’t there yet on that side (and probably won’t, as it would prevent them from generating revenue if someone can just open a server and connect to their network)

    I don't think that's necessarily true. As fas as I know there are no plans to inject ads, they are planning to create a marketplace for custom feeds (think "premium" feeds) and labelers and such where they would take a cut. You would obviously still be able to purchase access to them from other servers. But this goal seems kinda lofty, not sure if it can be viable.

  • Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers?

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  • To complete the network, relays are required on ATProto and apparently could be expensive to host, so right now, it appears the only relay is hosted by BlueSky the company. Which makes things slightly centralized.

    A number I've seen quoted multiple times now is ~$150 per month to host a relay (Source). Which explains why Whitewind, Smokesignal and Frontpage don't host one, they are mostly still small projects by individual talented devs, but imo if that number is true, it really doesn't seem too outlandish that someone might go for it.