Comment on Bluesky rolls out blue check verifications

• hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Funny, but I haven’t heard of anyone starting new instances. Not sure why. Mastodon is more established?

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  • Jayjader@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t think anyone can host a relay right now aside from bluesky.

    People can host their own data / Personal Data Server, which is somewhere between self-hosting a mastodon instance and creating an account on someone else’s instance. The actual equivalent would be self-hosting your masto account separately from any instance (which is just not a thing with the current state of mastodon nor activity pub).

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    i love that bluesky just keeps getting away with it like this
    “oh well they said people can run their own instances, so that must be true!”
    nope, you just can’t run a bluesky instance, can we please recognize this fact and stop giving the massive corporation the benefit of the doubt?

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    • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not that I disagree with the spirit of what you’re saying, but bluesky is not even close to a “massive” corporation. According to this they have a net worth of $7.23m, going as low as $600k in October last year. I know of plenty of local restaurants and other small businesses with a higher net worth than that.

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