Bluesky, yet another platform that demonstrably discriminates. Anyone with an IP address from Gaza is simply blocked.
Have fun on this discriminatory platform!
centralized corporate-backed social media is problematic
Bluesky, yet another platform that demonstrably discriminates. Anyone with an IP address from Gaza is simply blocked.
Have fun on this discriminatory platform!
AFAICT #ATproto thinks of a PDS like a website. #bluesky is decentralized like the web cause lots of fully independent PDSs exist, like most websites are independent. Having very few relays or app views is fine like it's ok that other things on the web are more centralized. DNS, search, email etc.
Not at all.
Social media is not about content but connections. The parts that determine reach and what can be boosted. The ability to go viral. Those must be decentralized.
I think Matrix still has my favorite decentralized service username schema. 
@user:domain.tld makes a lot of intuitive sense to me and looks really clean. It's really clear which part is the username and which is the domain without looking repetitive. It starts with an @ so it tells clients to pull up the username lookup when you start typing, but it doesn't get kludgy like other username schemas do.
user@domain.tld makes sense for email I guess because you can't really @ people inline, but it doesn't work well for other services because it doesn't start with an @ so it doesn't indicate to the client to pull up the username lookup. I'm curious how XMPP handles this. 
@user@domain.tld that Fedi uses looks awful to me. I hate the double @'s, it just doesn't scan very well and looks silly. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like my username is being flanked by boobies. 
(Technically Fedi uses WebFinger/the email schema under the hood from the last example and the double @'s are just user-facing in order to trigger the inline username lookup, but meh, I'm including it.)
@domain.tld that Bluesky uses seems clean on the surface, but then you realize your username is (usually) just a domain name which is... weird. 
Then you're stuck making a subdomain for your username if you couldn't get a dedicated domain for it, so then it becomes @user.domain.tld or even @user.subdomain.domain.tld which is just, like, idk a lot of dots. 
It makes sense for ATProto because of how the DIDs work, but it's still not my favorite.
I know I've made this ramble before but I'm like Fedi handles where I'm hopelessly repetitive 
#Matrix #MatrixChat #Federation #Fedi #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Bluesky #ATProto
Ich sage euch warum ich hier erstmal abwarte.
Die PLC-Directory, also wo alle Identitaeten gespeichert werden, liegt bei Bluesky PBC, die sich uebrigens auch einzig und allein fuer die Weiterentwicklung von AT-Proto zustaendig fuehlen.
#Eurosky ist, wie #Bluesky auch, nicht dezentral. Und #atproto ist ist (noch) kein W3C- oder IETF-Standard wie #ActivityPub, sondern ein von Bluesky entwickeltes und gesteuertes Protokoll – mit Roadmap-Macht beim Unternehmen!
The vision of #ActivityPub AFAIK is that social media servers would be as ubiquitous as websites and email servers and just as independent. That's not the goal of #bluesky relays or any other social media model I'm aware of.
Am I wrong to think that matters in regards to free speech and #DemocracyOfReach? Is it somehow unworkable? Or are there other goals that people think matter more? What am I missing? #SocialWeb
There was never any reason to trust #Bluesky , you just move from one shitty trend to another.
I am honest with you because I love you.
Hey Bluesky, why not simply have users confirm they are above a certain age?
Today this is what #Bluesky users are seeing when they try to access their accounts.
First, this is not a necessary measure. There is no general regulation that requires Bluesky to do 'age assurance.'
Second, even if you accept that it is for 'age assurance', why not simply, as most such online platforms do, have users confirm they are old enough? Why ask for a specific birthdate?
What happens when your husband gets kidnapped by ICE and you worry about it on Bluesky? Your account gets suspended, the Head of Trust and Safety trolls you on a secondary account you create to try and figure out what happened, then bans that account!
Fucking HELL what is WRONG with that site?!?
Nah, I don't think I will. Guess that means I no longer have a Bluesky presence. Oh well.
Did you know Bluesky's login-required wall is bullshit, entirely UI-based, and easy to work around?
Neither did I!
Enjoy this little how-to:
@pallenberg Hab ich doch gleich gesagt, dass das nix wird mit #Bluesky … einfach #prinzip-bedingt.
So the folks behind the super queer "instance" (idk what Bluesky calls em) on Bluesky, known as NorthSky... Seems to be ran by some serious transmedicalists who have used Kiwifarms to dox people!
So like, I get we sometimes have some fedi drama on here but like... I legit cannot understand the advantage of Bluesky at this point in any capacity. It's like Fedi but worse with extra steps and tougher to program and run yourself.
nate.mecca1.net/posts/2025-12-…
New blog post, a bit of an addendum to my older microblogging protocols comparison post(s) until I do an updated version at some point. It mostly just goes over a handful of big events and shifts I've personally noticed since my last post in the summer of 2024.
Is it correct to say the #Fediverse and #BlueSky are "federated" by protocol bridges? I have similar question related to #Nostr and #Threads and other bridged protocols. Given the #Fediverse is #ActivityPub, what this larger federated social web called?
If you are bridging your Fediverse account with https://fed.brid.gy/ to bluesky, you can also make a custom username for the bridged bluesky handle, if you have a domain.
This is my bridged Pixelfed account:
https://bsky.app/profile/punk.photos
I still have to do this for my Mastodon account...
#mastodon #pixelfed #bridge #bridging #bluesky #fedibridge #decentralization #atproto #activitypub #FediHint #fedihints
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