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Now that he's changed the name and the founders have moved on.... (i.imgflip.com)
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[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

That's Bluesky. It's supposed to be a federated social media, but right now there's only one kind of software for it and you can't yet self-host it (although you can self-host your data). The open-source protocol, known as AT, was created by Twitter back in the day, and Jack Dorsey and a bunch of staff were able to rescue it when Musk took over.

AT does not federate with ActivityPub, but users of either protocol can appear on the other using Bridgy; and some Friendica instances have basic support for AT. The equivalent of "fediverse" is "ATmosphere" (with the first two letters capitalised).

Since it became public (as opposed to invite-only), Dorsey left the platform and went back to Nostr (yet another microblogging platform, this time built around blockchain :-P).

It's actually quite a nice place, in my opinion, with a vibe similar to a combination of Twitter and Tumblr.

Sorry for going into this much detail. I just really like explaining things.

EDIT: Turns out, the word being thrown around in place of "tweet" was also slang for cum. I have removed it, as this was probably originally a joke.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So do you guys not know what skeet means or....

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm dying, we really out here trying to convince people to leave Twitter for a site that uses the word "reskeet"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I've just looked it up on UrbDict, and I think that might have been a joke that I just didn't understand. I guess we just use "post" and "repost".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with a little skeet shooting?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've just looked it up on UrbDict, and I think that might have been a joke that I just didn't understand. I guess we just use "post" and "repost".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

What's wrong with a little skeet shooting?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah, fuck.

Well, thanks for letting me know. Believe it or not, it's not the first time this sort of thing has happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I mean you're not wrong. I've seen multiple articles stating that a blue sky version of tweet is a skeet. It's why I've written the entire platform off.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll skeet skeet mother fucker

I'll reskeet god damn!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've just looked it up on UrbDict, and I think that might have been a joke that I just didn't understand. I guess we just use "post" and "repost".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Thank you for taking into so much detail. I feel pretty well informed now.