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Does anyone actually say this though? I don't think anyone who joined Bluesky did so for federation - they joined because it's not Twitter.
You forgot, it’s also not mastodon.
Yeah there's this really weird group of people on Lemmy who are obsessed with thinking Twitter and blue sky are the exact same thing. I don't know if it's because they don't get why people switch to Blue Sky or if they're trying to purposely downplay the Nazi stuff on Twitter. I really can't decide. Strongly leaning toward the latter.
You are on the Fediverse, a community centered primarily around free, open source, federated software watching every normie on the internet abandon one corpo playpen for another corpo playpen. Of course we're upset about it.
I think Bluesky is currently better than twitter, I have absolutely no faith that it will remain that way.
This is exactly what I'm fucking talking about. Somehow hand waving away the fact that Twitter's literally run by a Nazi promoting Nazi ideology. That's not the same fucking thing as Blue Sky. To say so is bizarre. To play down that difference is bizarre. To act like it's inevitably going to end up in the exact same place is bizarre.
Founder Jack Dorsey has abandoned Bluesky citing a lack of continued faith in the project and current CEO Jay Graber has primarily worked with cryptocurrency. My hopes are not high. Besides which, even if they do everything right and gain a huge following, Musk or Zuckerberg will just want to buy them out and our current government will allow them to do that.
Not being literal Nazis is definitely a mark in their favor, but the whole point of this argument in the first place is that free, open source, self hosted federated software is RIGHT HERE. We're on it RIGHT NOW. With everyone abandoning major platforms because they're full of Nazis, this is perhaps the single best opportunity we're ever going to have to retake the internet for ourselves en masse. Which everyone is totally ignoring in favor of hopping onto the next corponet.
I'm not excusing Musk for shit, and I'm not accusing Bluesky of being as bad or worse than Nazis. That's silly. I'd rather see users move to Bluesky than stay on X. But I'd much rather see them move to Mastodon. Corporations at large, especially social media corps have proven time and again that they can't be trusted, so... don't. Take back your own internet. The options are here already.
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I joined because it lets me use my domain as my username without having to host an instance.
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Honestly.... Ya, literally any extra steps in signing up or slight bit of confusion is enough to make the average person give up and go back to whatever platform they are comfortable with. I've talked to people who dispise twitter but won't even switch to Bluesky because the extra dot in the user handle is too weird for them.
Yeah honestly they should make cars with one pedal. Two is just way to confusing for the average person.
Conflating ease of operation with ease of sign up. Have you ever tried to read an article online and something pops up and you left the page, even if it wasn't necessarily trying to get you to log in? That's the sort of thing they're talking about.
One-pedal driving is a feature in a number of modern cars.
Wait until I tell you about the cars with three pedals.
Hi I found a 4th pedal on the far left that doesn't come back up when I press it, and my car makes funny smells now
The difference is more like automatic vs manual transmission. If you've only ever used automatic, the mere idea of gears to push is enough to scare most people out of learning. It's the same with servers/instances and social media
Edit: spelling
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I feel like bluesky is just an attempt by a lot of institutional powers that lost a platform when Elon took over Twitter to make what essentially is a clone of Twitter circa 2018.
What a lot of people forget is that, even before Elon, Twitter had become super toxic. It was basically some pseduo-progressive echo chamber dominated by lazy journalists, virtue signaling politicians, and toxic hot takes divorced from reality. The moderation system was just selectively enforced based on whatever Twitter's SF HQ thought was relevant that day.
I like the idea of anyone being able to spin up their own server and have a space for discourse. While it can be dangerous, I'd strongly argue that having a centralized private organization deciding what is/isn't acceptable is a lot more so.
It's how forums used to be, and it worked just fine. You had to go out of your way to find communities dedicated to bigotry instead of getting forcibly pipelined into them just for joining a funny cat image group.
Fuck. It's so true to man. I literally grew up on the Internet. I could not imagine that now.
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The Internet is just a fad. Wait until everyone logs into a single central server in Virginia. One database is all you need for Earth.
I'm literally moving my mastodon instance by car right now
People have containerized (like literal shipping containers that comply with ISO 668 and its successors, not just software like Docker) data centers that can operate wherever they can hook up power. Put some antennas or satellite receivers on the outside, and you might be able to literally have services running from a moving vehicle or ship.
Railcar. X-Files got that right. Move it across the country, tacked on the end of a freight or passenger train.
Like Pump up the Volume but instead of radio it's fedi!
ICYMI, someone did run a GoToSocial instance on their car https://masto.doskel.net/@doskel/113884312225881269
I'll take three!
What I am unsure about is whether this is a BS or AT thing. There are people expressing interest in using AT to make versions of other popular services (like TikTok, Instagram, etc) but would they face similar costs to run a relay? If so, and it would mean you either need VC or charity backing (millionaires either way), I fail to see the point when we already have everything chugging along here on AP - with an investment of a fraction of that money we could make on-boarding slicker and help iron out other niggles that occur when you are developing on a shoestring.
There are people expressing interest in using AT to make versions of other popular services (like TikTok, Instagram, etc) but would they face similar costs to run a relay
Most non-Bluesky App Views I know about (WhiteWind, frontpage.fyi, BookHive) just use BlueSky's.
I fail to see the point when we already have everything chugging along here on AP - with an investment of a fraction of that money we could make on-boarding slicker and help iron out other niggles that occur when you are developing on a shoestring.
You're failing to consider how this would benefit the shareholders! My portfolio line must go up!
As I understand it, it's kind of both.
The Bsky Relay costs are because it's the primary relay, sure, but any relay aiming to handle a mass amount of people, as well as a variety of AppViews, will likely scale similarly in costs. This is because to try to minimize any fragmentation of experience (as one may see with ActivityPub), AT protocol relays act as a central mirror of all the personal data servers connecting to them.
It's baked into the architecture for the most part, despite some later developments of lighter pseudo-relays that try to reduce some of the overhead. From the outset they've said they only really see there being a few large-scale relays due to the operational costs.
... AT protocol relays act as a central mirror of all the personal data servers connecting to them.
That's just reddit with extra steps.
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Ah yes, the tragedy of any federation, most people don't want to pay attention to every little thing in their lives so when one central node becomes "good enough" it's easiest to relinquish control for as long as it works.
I can think of one very large federation experiment in the world that went the same way.
Hell, lemmy.world is already the defacto way to engage here.
I think that what a lot of people don't realize is that BlueSky is federated in order to make their corporate infrastructure stronger and easier for them to operate.
Now I want to see a Mastodon server setup in a camper.
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