Tim Chambers
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joene extra
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About #WeTransfer, #BendingSpoons and #BlueSky. No BlueSky is not owned by Bending Spoons, but is a for-profit corporation financed by venture capital. It's not that far away from Bending Spoons' business model.
Preaching to the choir here, I know. So if you are on BlueSky, tell everyone complaining about WeTransfer about BlueSky as well.
Tim Chambers
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'The group originally met through collaborating on #Nostr, an open, “apolitical” social networking protocol that has been receiving the bulk of #Dorsey’s attention since #Twitter’s sale to Elon #Musk and his stepping down from social network #Bluesky’s board. However, the team will experiment with other tools, too, like #ActivityPub' 👀
From: @joanpla
https://mastodon.social/@joanpla/114869406168784743
Roni Laukkarinen
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I've been following ATProto's development from the sidelines since 2022, but I somehow missed this great take by @eloquence on Bluesky interoperability with Mastodon and ActivityPub: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1716
"We currently have two emerging alternatives to X that deserve to be taken seriously: the fediverse and BlueSky. The fediverse tends to attract folks who highly value open source in principle and practice; BlueSky tends to attract folks who are looking for a drop-in Twitter replacement.
In this context, I would argue that a clear commitment from the key parties (that includes @Gargron's Mastodon gGmbH and Bluesky the company) towards an interoperable social web is essential. We should be able to follow each other no matter where we decide to make our social media home. Even Mark Zuckerberg's Threads has at least made a commitment towards interoperability."
It's a good read. Year after year, it feels like ATProto and ActivityPub, Bluesky and Mastodon, couldn't be further apart. Even Nostr and WordPress support ActivityPub. We're seeing more servers and clients in the Fediverse adopting ActivityPub. As far as I know, 99% of ATProto is still powered by Bluesky's main server, which makes it not very decentralized. I wonder why anyone would want to set up a server for ATProto when ActivityPub is so much more widely used.
I see Bluesky and ATProto's future as just another private company, like the rest. It's easy to pretend decentralization and open source just for marketing.
Alex Akselrod
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Bluesky will be age-gating content for UK users. It’s your privacy that pays.
The UK Online Safety Act has unleashed an unregulated market in age verification.
That we have to do these intrusive checks with countless providers for different platforms is dangerous.
https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
#onlinesafetyact #ageverification #ageassurance #privacy #dataprotection #data #biometrics #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol #bluesky
Feature-wise, Bluesky feels like a cheap, dated version of Mastodon. It still has no edit option, no content warnings, and is stuck with a 300-character limit.
¡Abbie!
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SoraSNS, a Mastodon, Misskey, Bluesky, Pleroma all in one client.
There’s a major design revamp and many bugs squashed in the newest update 
and now it saves your timeline position for Mastodon and Bluesky.
Try it out yourself!
https://apps.apple.com/app/sorasns-for-mastodon-bluesky/id6450969760
#mastodon #fediverse #misskey #bluesky #ios #pleroma #マストドン #ミスキー #ブルースカイ
Has Mike Masnic commented on #Bluesky's age verification roll out yet? I haven't found anything.
Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK (in response to new laws) https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
It's not unusual for a social media company to express dissent for a law they're forced to implement. #Bluesky's eagerness to comply with centralized identity verification is telling.
Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK (in response to new laws) https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
@cwebber
What a surprise. A protocol that largely depends on centralized sections, gets focused on by federal agencies and ends up needing to identify individual users (and not just their age) and collect their privite information.
It's almost like decentralization was actually a good idea... 🤔