Yeah, you’re right. Trump would never do anything that’s a conflict of interest.
Yeah, you’re right. Trump would never do anything that’s a conflict of interest.
Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
The expression on the first statue’s face lmaooo
Neither does Bluesky.
Because all of the cool people are there! Don’t you want to be cool, too?
It doesn’t bother people that their blocks are public?
I was talking about Bluesky.
Who’s the billionaire?
It’s run by a millionaire, not a billionaire. People like it because it’s Twitter without Musk. That’s it.
Doesn’t Threads use AP?
I’m getting Google+ vibes.
Because there’s VC money behind it.
I assume so. There’s a download and setup instructions here.
It’s in the article.
Not quite. Elon is a rather singular figure.
Apparently the instances are connected to a central hub.
I thought it takes that much storage to run a relay, not an instance. (Which Bluesky calls a “Personal Data Store.”)
Maybe this is just my ignorance showing, but this seems like a really archaic way to design something like this in 2024. Dump all the data into a central repository and then have clients pull from that?
It reminds me of what Google tried to do initially with Google+. They copied Diaspora’s concept of aspects, calling them “circles”. Over time, though, using the circles became more and more janky until they removed them entirely. Then, of course, Google+ got shuttered completely over security issues.
Likewise, “federation” and “decentralization” are the new hotness in social networks, so here’s a big corporation looking to cash in on that. Of course, real decentralization would take too much power away from the corporation, so they have to half-ass it somehow.
You mean misogynists? I tend to not feel bad for misogynists.
Not surprising, considering that A) Lemmy is very similar software and B) a lot of the users are former redditors.
Just having downvotes creates toxicity.