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you are welcome to go do whatever stuff you think is more valuable

Agreed. All social media should be interoperable and federated.

Yeah... Right now we have small technofeudalists trying to consolidated their own realm. And if you claim to better and healthier social media, they simply say to get to fuck out.

"early" and "sham" are not the same thing.

And this doesn’t mean Bluesky or AT Protocol are THE answer to the problem of building social media that is much hard for authoritarians to control - but it has been the most compelling effort I’ve seen in this space so far, and the one I’ve actually enjoyed using most. We need more such efforts.

in Canada we are struggling to find cloud services that don't host all their data in the US / are penetrable by the US govt

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🎯 Amen!

How is this any different from Usenet? This is a real question: when I look at mastodon, that’s what I see. And it seems just as likely to follow the same patterns over time.

I just love that there's a social network that it's easy to code for again. I'd missed that.

I'm surprised more people don't view a lack of alt text as ableist

Digital sovereignty must be a key focus for all free societies in the next decade if democracy is going to survive this moment.

Have you seen this? bsky.app/profile/noes...

Maybe it needs more badass branding. Perhaps the second version should be called the AT-AT Protocol.

If anything I see the opposite problem: the stewards of the tech find the work of keeping up the community to be boring. The tech is important, but adoption depends heavily on a positive experience for early adopters.

At the moment ist does not bring much benefit. 99% of users are on Bluesky only, which is still completely under US legislation. If Miller makes it illegal tomorrow, there is not short-term-way to counter this.

Like, if a person was operating from a “I log on and the posts are there 🤷🏼‍♂️” level of understanding

We’re sure BlueSky isn’t controlled by bad actors?

I really need to finally do my homework on the protocol. My holy grail is the social media equivalent of WordPress: self-hostable, minimal requirements, fast setup, extensible for the nerds but good enough out of the box for the 99%. I know others are pursuing that too.

I read AT protocol and I was transported to those times when we had to use it to dial our internet provider. Either these nazis means business or I'm old.

I read that as AT Proctology. 1. It was very confusing. 2. Pretty sure I need a nap. 🤪

We really need forums back hahah

The server costs to run this place are probably pretty astronomical compared to the budget of the average person though... so how's that fit into things?