#Threads / Meta continue feeling the heat from the #Bluesky.
They're testing letting you pin any feed as your home, and making feeds more visible on mobile.
Bluesky and Mastodon will continue to be my home though. Fool me once with a bajillionaire-owned platform...
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
in reply to Stullekovski • • •Stullekovski
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •it's not that "open" (main instance/control) and FOSS. for me it's nothing and a sell out in a few years (sooner or later). twitter way in speedrun
Stullekovski
in reply to Stullekovski • • •Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Flaky
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Nazo
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •"Bluesky and Mastodon will continue to be my home though. Fool me once with a bajillionaire-owned platform.."
Literally what Bluesky is though......
So I guess that's "fool me twice. Or three times. Or whatever."
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
in reply to Nazo • • •Nazo
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •In the end it's no more open than Facebook having APIs for some external things to access.
It's still centralized and all the open things connect to the centralization. Even if you build something based on their modified protocol, you can't "federate." The closest thing you can do is what the bridge bot does.
But I guess you'll just have to see for yourself.
sweet conceit
in reply to Nazo • • •@nazokiyoubinbou so far Bluesky has talked a whole lot about how open they are but it really should come with some major asterisks attached, as everything actually meaningful about the service is still centralized
you can host your own PDS but if their servers go down that PDS is useless
maybe they get to actual decentralization, maybe not, but given they're a for-profit company I don't understand how they simultaneously sell subscriptions to make money and stay "open"
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
in reply to sweet conceit • • •@lewdmachines @nazokiyoubinbou if you care about decentralisation above all else fine, but i didn’t even mention it
Why is it on Mastodon, without fail, any time I mention any other service all the reply guys come along to go at me for it, y’all so tiring
sweet conceit
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •@nazokiyoubinbou it must be rad to comment things like how something is open source and open protocol and then get upset and derogatory when people want to talk about what those things mean
you're a real winner
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
in reply to sweet conceit • • •sweet conceit
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •@nazokiyoubinbou lol announcing it
ok friendo
Nazo
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •@lewdmachines Sorry to upset you, but I do think it's important to remember the differences in how the platforms function. The key point here is that Bluesky is not only not immune to all the things that have happened to other centralized platforms before it, but basically in a position where it's probably going to ultimately want to go that same direction sooner or later. Unfortunately, most signs point more towards sooner than to later.
It's all well and good that they pretend at being open, but since they aren't really, it's ultimately meaningless. But most importantly, that can't be a point of consideration just solely on its own. After all, most of what Google does is open, but they're hardly good...
Mackaj
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •That doesn't really matter in this case. What makes bluesky a viable alternative to X right now is it's social graph. That has reached critical mass for groups of people looking for specific communities outside of X.
When you move instances in the Fediverse you take your social graph with you. A bluesky competitor built on the same source code won't have that advantage.
@nazokiyoubinbou
Asterisk
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Fool me twice with another one (bluesky, surprise!)
You can't use AtProto without bluesky and everybody uses the same instance so it's not very open...
and besides the VC shareholders could close it at any time.
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
in reply to Asterisk • • •@asterisk it's fully open, just not fully decentralised like the fediverse
people on Mastodon seem to say this every time like they're brainwashed
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Flaky
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •The Fediverse has attracted such a toxic perfectionist audience. I feel people on Bluesky appreciate the messiness of real life more.
I guess what I’m trying to say is the Fediverse should touch grass.
The Innkeeper
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