Oh yeah? A decentralized social network? Can I run an instance? No? Are there even instances? Seems not, since the main one is on fire and that's the only place to go.
Can I even join? No? You're telling me I need to grovel before one of these self-important media freaks you handed the invites to in order to get in? You can keep your circle jerk.
Yeah, can anyone explain to me how BlueSky is meaningfully different from Twitter? Not being owned by Elon Musk is a perfectly good differentiator at this point, but is that it?
It really is fundamentally the same thing, but they are sprinkling a lot of buzzwords on top to try and steal the spotlight from the emerging Free Software platforms. Like this decentralization thing. It is my understanding that the network is supposed to be "decentralized" in that people can volunteer to run their own nodes, but that decentralization comes with absolutely none of the autonomy gained by a Fediverse instance. It is purely the cryptobro conceptualization of decentralization where you run up your electric bill so some Silicon Valley computer touchers can turn a profit.
It is Twitter not run by Elon, but instead run by the guy who created Twitter and said "Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness."
Someone mentioned how Facebook was trying to squash the federation interest by joining it then “improving” the technology through proprietary development until everyone becomes dependent on it. I forget the name of the strategy but Microsoft was the one who popularized it. But it seems like this is a variation of it by just being dishonest about blueskyy’s “decentralization” ___
And yes, unlike Bluesky, Facebook's upcoming platform, threads.net, is supposed to be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol used by Mastodon, Lemmy, and dozens of other bits of Fediverse software. They have held meetings with several large Mastodon instance admins under NDA. Their Android app accidentally got published for a split second on Google Play. It is coming very soon. There is currently a campaign for Fediverse instance admins to agree to block the shit out of whatever they roll out. Over 500 instances have signed up so far.
In terms of Federated platforms, XMPP is the greatest example. Google "embraced" it as the core of their Google Talk application, made their own changes while refusing to incorporate changes made to the spec, stifled innovation in XMPP applications because none of those new features would be compatible with the Google Talk users, then just dropped it overnight when they killed Google Talk and replaced it with Hangouts.
You had ONE JOB, Jack.
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Oh yeah? A decentralized social network? Can I run an instance? No? Are there even instances? Seems not, since the main one is on fire and that's the only place to go.
Can I even join? No? You're telling me I need to grovel before one of these self-important media freaks you handed the invites to in order to get in? You can keep your circle jerk.
Yeah, can anyone explain to me how BlueSky is meaningfully different from Twitter? Not being owned by Elon Musk is a perfectly good differentiator at this point, but is that it?
It really is fundamentally the same thing, but they are sprinkling a lot of buzzwords on top to try and steal the spotlight from the emerging Free Software platforms. Like this decentralization thing. It is my understanding that the network is supposed to be "decentralized" in that people can volunteer to run their own nodes, but that decentralization comes with absolutely none of the autonomy gained by a Fediverse instance. It is purely the cryptobro conceptualization of decentralization where you run up your electric bill so some Silicon Valley computer touchers can turn a profit.
It is Twitter not run by Elon, but instead run by the guy who created Twitter and said "Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness."
Someone mentioned how Facebook was trying to squash the federation interest by joining it then “improving” the technology through proprietary development until everyone becomes dependent on it. I forget the name of the strategy but Microsoft was the one who popularized it. But it seems like this is a variation of it by just being dishonest about blueskyy’s “decentralization” ___
"Embrace, extend, extinguish."
And yes, unlike Bluesky, Facebook's upcoming platform, threads.net, is supposed to be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol used by Mastodon, Lemmy, and dozens of other bits of Fediverse software. They have held meetings with several large Mastodon instance admins under NDA. Their Android app accidentally got published for a split second on Google Play. It is coming very soon. There is currently a campaign for Fediverse instance admins to agree to block the shit out of whatever they roll out. Over 500 instances have signed up so far.
In terms of Federated platforms, XMPP is the greatest example. Google "embraced" it as the core of their Google Talk application, made their own changes while refusing to incorporate changes made to the spec, stifled innovation in XMPP applications because none of those new features would be compatible with the Google Talk users, then just dropped it overnight when they killed Google Talk and replaced it with Hangouts.
Interesting. I wonder what the admins who are siding with Facebook are getting from this
It has a racism slider
Haha, I saw that the other day. If that was a joke from the Silicon Valley HBO show, people would say it was too on the nose.
I do think that’s largely it, that is all a lot of people are looking for though
I mean I got my invite yesterday at least (although I gave it to someone else because I'm not really interested in Twitter 2)