could someone please explain bluesky to me (the protocol used by the mastodon network)???
@cwebber One simply points one's buttocks at the sky and toots gratuitously until the smoke clears and the sky shows a brilliant cerulean blue, like the colour of a dead channel. If lacking buttocks, ask a friend to toot for you.
Blue's KY makes things slide smoother, but tastes horrible on toast.
@cwebber it’s not a color. It’s about the sadness, the blues.
The more sad you are the more efficient it is.
It’s like the movie monsters inc. except it’s real and the monsters are mostly extracting wealth from others.
The sky part is just because the sadness is in the air.
@cwebber it's this thing https://zone.dog/games/firmament9/ it's basically a cloud computing thing
@cwebber It's like if popular social media was a banana, except the banana is also Usenet, and it's purple, and you need multiple PDSes to properly federate. Actually, forget the banana.
@cwebber anybody can install it on their personal PDS datastore then they can start mining for toots by doing proof-of-werk 🫰🏻 against other professional dominatrix servers (PDS)
@cwebber it's what we're all using right now, silly.
The name was chosen based on old myths about how the sky was blue. A bit far fetched I know. Give me one of our arid yellow days, thick with smokey flavor!
@cwebber it actually just looks blue because light is refracted between many servers between its original source and where you perceive it
@cwebber I heard it was built using this cool new thing called Goblins from Spritely (https://spritely.institute/) which has some cool ocap stuff so your posts are only visible to people you want to see them and lets you edit your posts atomicly so no one ever sees an old copy on the network!
It was built by Nistrine Wemmer-Lebber who's quite a hoopy frood and I hear she's often available to answer questions about the deep lore of its structure.
@cwebber mastodon is not a network, it is actually a heavy metal band from Atlanta, and while I assume they did play under blue skies sometimes, I fail to see the relevance here
@cwebber Have you ever seen a big pile of horse-pucky? It’s like that but with computers.
@cwebber First of all it's called bluesky/.social, sometimes referred to as bluesky + .social. Bluesky is the protocol but it utilizes the .social core utils.
It is decentralised btw, which means everyone has to develop their own application that communicates over the bluesky protocol. This ensures that only real pros can use it, not noobs like women.
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@cwebber Bluesky in morning, poster take warning. Bluesky at night, poster's delight
I did fall for those questions once 😂
