As someone who did her PhD on consent I just want to flag a few things in the bsky bridge discussion. One: medical style disclosure based consent (terms and conditions, EULAs etc.) is totally inappropriate for this sort of situation and has been for decades. But it serves the needs of slow-moving legal requirements and companies that like people to forget they signed up to stuff (or were coerced into doing so for social or other reasons). See https://liedra.net/thesis for more details. (1/n)
Finally: So discussions about the technical capabilities (all posts are public), reasonableness of expectations (people are paranoid) and all of these other objections are moot if you are a responsible person developing tech that interacts with that community. Engage with the community, respect that community, and don't get mad if that community rejects your tech if you didn't do the legwork to discover the normative expectations of behaviour within that community. #bsky#bluesky
Hoo boy, is there ever a lot of emotion swirling around the #Bluesky issue. I share a lot of the feelings but some of the statements are, um… not 100% fact-based.
...#Threads released, rate limiting on #Twitter and huge spikes in traffic to the #Fediverse, new features and the first million installs for #Bluesky...
With all this growth (and not without some pain) here are some ways we can all take care of each other and this place.
Last night one of my toots got targeted by a bunch of bad people. My notifications were full of slurs. I noticed they are all from the same one instance that allows shitposting, trolling and hate speech. This kind of targeting and toxicity would been allowed on #Twitter and #Bluesky but on the #Fediverse and #Mastodon I can just block the entire server once and for all.
It's also generally wonderful that most servers won't tolerate discrimination, shitposting (like actual hate posting, not jokes) and those who do are easy to ban. It's nice to know I don't need to wait or get 💩 emoji as answer from support etc. Instead I can just block them all with one click and move on with my life.
Btw thought I already blocked, but if you did the same mistake and it left unnoticed, please #Fediblock: poa.st.
Ich habe aufgeschrieben, warum ich mich aktuell nicht bei #Bluesky registrieren werde, sondern hier im Fediverse eine gute und nachhaltige Möglichkeit zur Vernetzung, zum Austausch und zum Lernen sehe, die wir gemeinsam auch noch weiter entwickeln und verbessern können. Vielleicht hilft das einigen im #FediLZ und anderswo bei der Entscheidungsfindung.
Über Korrekturen und Ergänzungen zum Beitrag freue ich mich ebenfalls!
Be careful if you register your domain name through #Bluesky. "Bluesky offers an additional layer of privacy protection by acting as your domain registrar agent. We do not register your personal information with the WHOIS directory, [sic]" which, in practice, means you don't control your domain name, you are not even the holder, Bluesky is.
📞 Introducing voice & video call for the Fediverse ✨
Sora is a futuristic Fediverse client for Mastodon, Bluesky, Misskey, Pleroma all in one. Comes with local ML to curate posts and the For You timeline.
In the next update V10, Sora allows you to have a Peer-to-Peer call using Fediverse credentials.
> The Moderator's Trilemma goes, "Large, diverse userbase; centralized platforms; don't anger users – pick any two."
> Rozenshtein proposes a solution: federation. De-siloing social media, breaking it out of centralized walled gardens and recomposing it as a bunch of small servers run by a diversity of operators with a diversity of content moderation approaches.
On the question of “What’s the plan to make money?”, #bluesky CEO Jay Graeber says:
“We’ve been building marketplaces within the app, essentially. So, we’ve got information marketplaces, moderation marketplaces..”
How can that produce enough revenue to make the VCs happy? Just what kind of information marketplaces might she be thinking of that can produce those results?
Bluesky will remove their login wall next week: all profiles will be available to non-logged users. Accounts can opt-out of this but will still be public through ATproto federation (like they currently are).
Threads will launch in EU on December 14th, most likely at the same time the "delete account" feature is deployed to fit EU's privacy laws.
Tumblr reaffirmed their commitment to federate with ActivityPub, despite not expecting a big audience boost from it.
Here is how I know that Mastadon is a better place to hang out than BlueSky. If I post a picture of my cats here, someone is going to like it every time — even when it isn’t caturday. I post the cutest picture of my cats ever taken over on BlueSky and nothing. Crickets. I think BlueSky may just be a bunch of (gasp!) cat haters. I’ve had an account there since the beginning of beta, but I’m usually just here where all the fun people are. #bluesky #cats
Here’s cats.
Sora, a futuristic Fediverse client, now features 🎬 Fediverse Watch tab 🎬
🌐 Mastodon, Bluesky, Misskey, Pleroma all in one
🔭 Watch interesting videos on the Fediverse
🌟 Explore more contents from Discovery view and hashtag timelines
👀 When you open a post, see similar posts of the same topic
👾 Local algorithm to rank posts and add additional interesting posts into your home timeline
A friend of mine (who is also rights on the shortcomings of the #ActivityPub protocol) gently mocks the #Fediverse, because to him it sounds like "fed" like "the feds" (the federal police, the FBI, in the US).
To which I fiercely mocked back: "fed" only sounds that bad maybe for people coming from the US, so I don't really mind, maybe we achieve a network that is less US-centric this way..?
Today I realized: #Bluesky actually sounds like...BS! ("bullshit" in common English everywhere!)
While it isn't native ActivityPub support, implementation of #Mastodon and #Bluesky APIs for cross-posting still communicates one thing: Spoutible is at least thinking about the people using them.