Hollywood stars and geeks unite to billionaire-proof social media

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is like listening to the abused house wife who keeps running back to the same unapologetic violent husband.

  “He’s changed and won’t do it again”

  “I believe in him … it’s going to be different this time”

  “I’ll give him another chance … again”

  “He promised that it will be different this time”

  “I know it will work this time”

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s absolutely no way BlueSky’s investors will tolerate it not being wrung out for every last cent.

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  • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It will be, “but”.

    The code is dual-licensed MIT and Apache. Meaning it’s fully compatible with a privative fork, but also a free federated network could still survive.

    For now, it seems like they are planning on developing extra features on top of the basic functionalities, not paywall basic features… but time will tell.

    In any case, they seem to be led by people who jumped ship from Twitter before the Muskocalypse, so it’s becoming kind of “the old time Twitter”. Chances are, as Musk rides Twitter’s popularity and inertia until fully turning it into a dystopian dictatorship propaganda machine, BlueSky will emerge to replace it as a slightly better iteration of what Twitter used to be.

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• Glasgow@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Bsky is gaining ground over mastodon due to clear UX problems that need to be fixed if they want to compete.

  Bsky isn’t perfect but it’s miles better than X and any support for better alternatives should be celebrated.

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Anyone have the text for this one. It's behind a paywall ironically.

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  • remington@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    archive.is/ExZju

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  • airportline@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The person who posted it on !bluesky@lemmy.ml copied and pasted the text.

    lemmy.ml/post/24749576

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• derbis@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Technically speaking, what’s the relationship between the “AT protocol” and the rest of the fediverse, like mastodon and Lemmy?

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Mastodon and Lemmy (and Pixelfed and many others) use a protocol called ActivityPub. Not all of the Fediverse uses it - for example, the original Fediverse apps like Identica and StatusNet used Activity Streams or OStatus.

    AT Protocol is another protocol, created specifically for Bluesky, although there’s no reason other apps couldn’t use it, once Bluesky actually enable decentralization.

    It does have some useful features that ActivityPub doesn’t have, like identity portability - you can move a profile from one server to another without having to change username or refollow everyone. AT Protocol lets you use your own domain name as your username, even if you don’t host your own instance. With Mastodon and Lemmy, your identity is tightly coupled to the instance you use, which makes it a pain to move to a different one.

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    • spartanatreyu@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s worth pointing out that while ActivityPub doesn’t currently support account migration (although there are proposals in the works for how to do this), Mastodon does have a weak form of support right now.

      You can create a new account on another mastodon instance, then you’re able to point your old account to your new account.

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    • Applejuicy@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thanks, this is the first time I’ve seen this explained!

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The rest of the Fediverse runs off ActivityPub.

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• BlazarNGC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  See: NOSTR protocol

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  • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nostr is great for privacy and for crypto, but not yet suitable for the general public.

    Asking an average user to secure a cryptographic key for their identity, when most can barely hold onto a user:pass, is kind of ridiculous… so Nostr is selling a $100 “authenticator box”. Not particularly user friendly.

    One strong point of Nostr is Bitcoin LN integration, which potentially could work as a source of revenue, but the look&feel is not published enough, while at the same time trying to offer more interaction types (like the marketplace), than what people really want: Twitter’s sweet teet.

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    • BlazarNGC@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s new onboarding for NOSTR. It’s not that difficult.

      Xitter sucks now more than ever and people know it.

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