You’re not wrong but that’s not quite decentralization, that’s just not building a walled garden, but retaining the power to put up walls at any point. If most users are on BlueSky, then BlueSky retains the power. If they decide to end support of AT or to extend (break) it, they keep their user base while everything else is left in the dust.

This is why people are saying not to create an account on mastoson.social - it’s getting too big. And mastodon.social is run by a non-profit, whereas BlueSky is a for-profit company. True decentralization and federation are against their interests.

She basically admits that BlueSky is not decentralized. “If you don’t like the moderation, just go build your own app” yeah cool that’s exactly not the point.

It’s not even primitive, just communism. The idea that peoples without civilization are held back or stuck in the past is a problematic worldview as well, and doesn’t hold up well with the archeological evidence either.

edit: I strongly recommend the Book “The Dawn of Everything” by Graeber and Wengrow, on this very topic

TIL, thanks

What exactly is Bonfire? They themselves just call it “social networking” which is so vague. Is it microblogging?

I’m not opposed to be honest. Know any projects looking for Go devs?

rent ain’t gonna pay itself lol.

But I’m working towards it

would hardly be heaven without them.

That being said I’m going to hell so the meme still applies

I dunno to me it’s really weird that “hydrogen bomb” is used throughout without explicitly explaining the difference.

This is incredibly misleading. A “hydrogen bomb” generally refers to a thermonuclear fusion weapon. This is not that. It’s just a “regular” chemical explosive.

The article makes it sound like this is a modified version of what’s known as a hydrogen bomb, but without a fission-based detonator. It is not. It’s a chemical bomb that yields flammable products so you get a fireball.

Also explosions aren’t better because they last long lol, the whole point of an explosion is to be fast. By these metrics a log of wood is an even better bomb

The CEO of Windscribe is an Elon stan so you didn’t switch to a more left-leaning provider than Proton.

I love duck typing! dynamic typing is my issue…

probably just in your country, try a VPN or a youtube mirror?

honestly the funniest video I’ve seen all week

Yep they should use a config file format like JSON or TOML or YAML or what have you, and then decode that into python objects. Using an actual programming language for config is dumb as hell IMO. (inb4 pissed off suckless fans)

A meme?? in my shitposting community?!?

What exactly is the cooperation that Signal was doing beforehand? Signal claims to collect very little data so I’m not sure how exactly they help?

Good article with some valid concerns.

The ending though.

We’re still bullish on the fediverse, and on Bluesky, if it manages to become a truly federated platform.

Anybody who thinks Bluesky actually wants to give up control of their platform is nuts

Wow! Finally somebody invented an efficient way for two computers to talk to each other

You need a source that Russia is invading Ukraine? bruh just ask Putin