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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 65 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Bluesky is also owned by a corporation and, like Twitter, could sell to a fascist billionaire whenever they find it profitable to do so.

X vs Bluesky is a great microcosm of American team-sports politics. Mastodon is something actually new.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah that's true but perfect is the enemy of good, Mastodon isn't gaining much traction so my hope is that at least we can get a federated protocol, whatever it is

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  • [–] 12 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

    Perfect is the enemy of good, but so is the desire for convenience.

    Mastodon gains less traction because it doesn't have an advertising budget, unlike Bluesky. Because Bluesky is owned by a corporation.

    Is Bluesky federated? I thought it wasn't. Tumblr also said they were going to, but then just... didn't.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah it does, though it uses their own protocol (ATprotocol) they open sourced it too

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    The AT Protocol was open from the start. It's not the issue and is actually rather clever in parts, in my limited understanding.

    The issue has more been that there was no way to run another server than the main one at first, and then that you could but it couldn't interoperate. I understand this is now something of the past, but I don't think I've ever come across a link to a bluesky post that wasn't on bsky.app.

    Looking a bit into it, it looks like all you need to do is host a Personal Data Server (PDS): https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds?tab=readme-ov-file#self-hosting-a-pds

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    PDS is just one part of the whole thing. It's just the place where your data is stored. Almost all other parts of the network are dependent on Bluesky's stack. Even the alternatives like Blacksky and Eurosky are still dependent of Bluesky's implementations like the Appview. So if Bluesky goes down, it affects the other services (in some way) too. One can host a PDS for cheap, but if you want a proper social media service (with post history, search etc), it is kind of expensive. There are other appviews, but for some reason Bluesky going down causes issues in Blacksky, Eurosky etc

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (3 children)

    After seeing what happened to Twitter following the purchase, I think anyone who buys Bluesky would be very wary about trashing the brand in the same way.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago

    Don't just look at the company profits. After Musk bought Twitter, Trump won and Musk gained direct access to the government. I think, that's a pretty good return on the investment.
    But most importantly: Elon now has his own big media company. No longer are the other rich guys ridiculing him because he doesn't have his own media empire. He's now a real full member in the club.

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