It's absolutely mind-boggling how the Bluesky team still has this huge amount of trust put on them when they're the same team that was actively destroying Twitter pre-Musk. This got memory holed almost entirely because of TDS. What makes it funny is Jack Dorsey bailing out on them and trying to come off as relatable to X, as if it's water under the bridge and not something that was hurting an entire country. What bothers me the most about Bluesky though is how loose things are compared to X. Block scripts are shared around and can be easily abused, likes aren't actually private and can be scraped via API, DNS records don't get flushed unless you contact specific staff members, and so on. It's ridiculous. The only plus I can see there is that it's purely company-based and none of their support is outsourced, but that's weak compared to over a year of overdue problems and openings to chaos. I am not an Elon bootlicker and I stand as a centrist if I were to label myself anything. I'll even admit that some changes made on X were done for frivolous reasons (likes being hidden likely due to the owner getting caught liking Asian porn), though in the end it's come to a great benefit on a social level. It definitely feels much more secure than its dubious competition, which those on said competition don't want you to believe. To expect one-sided perfection out of any social media website is ridiculous, though unfortunately that seems to be the goal of Bluesky. They already culminated an incredibly spastic audience and history is doomed to repeat itself. Hoping the same doesn't happen to X.
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@Pawlicker@makai.chaotic.ninja I'm aware he left bsky but this Nostr thing is news to me. Will definitely check this out.
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@Pawlicker@makai.chaotic.ninja @meguumin@binky.fish Nostr is very similar to bsky as it can relay posts and media without the problems AP has. It uses relays instead of PDS so anyone can run their own and no account is tied to a central place. It's neat in that regard but has contraction and so much crypto shilling.
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@Pawlicker@makai.chaotic.ninja @meguumin@binky.fish oh yeah definitely, I find it harder to engage in any meaningful conversation there. The technology does work well but if they want any kind of traction they need to give a better reason than "freedom of speech" because there's several places that do this. Also I fucking swear, you throw blockchain in a buzzword anywhere and the cryptobros flock so hard and talk nonstop about it without giving the network/technology any merit on its own.
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>saying anything is "freedom of speech" always attracts the worst posters especially post 2016, along with grifters. >Aside from the fact that calling your site free speech is not only oversaturated, but never means shit because it exists to be tested. This is why I have never, and will never refer to my instance as a "free speech site". I have no interest in zealously defending that stance on a website I run. I tolerate many things, certainly much more than mainstream sites, but I reserve the right to make executive decisions about shit I don't want to host.
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Saying your site is "freeze peach" invites frozen peach "auditors" and the worst type of posters. Not sure if any of you remember a site called Ruqqus but it also claimed to be "freeze peach" from the beginning and devolved into a shit show and died within 4 years, you had a good amount of people on the site outraged because the admiggers wanted to ban a guild called +Bestiality IMO the correct stance to take is just have a lot more tolerance for things posted on your site than most but outline what you do not want to host
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I was educated about the history of Ruqqus from the esteemed Ruqqus historian Carpathianflorist.
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I used to use Ruqqus and watched it go to shit, sad really. I worked on this project with two of the former Admiggers from Ruqqus + another dude and the core functionality is nearly there but the FE dev has been AWOL for pretty much 2 years now so its hard to progress with it. https://github.com/tinyboard/tinyboards I got federation working with it, and it's essentially Lemmy but with a much better UI/UX and much more customization. Wish I knew more FE codemonkeys who would want to work on this with us because I think it has potential
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