Kirk
@Kirk@startrek.website
- Comment on My reaction when there's a new Star Trek show for pre-schoolers 3 days ago:
I don’t think the people watching this show are going to be the ones paying for paramount plus subscriptions
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 4 days ago:
No, you can’t. You can have a custom domain (“PDS” is the term they invented for this) but it still relies on bluesky’s servers.
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 4 days ago:
Don’t let them distract with with the “whattabout matrix”. The Matrix Foundation is not a social media company, and furthermore it’s a nonprofit.
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 4 days ago:
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 4 days ago:
You are correct. The term is called “openwashing”. Now and then bluesky
employeescultists will come on Lemmy and mastodon and try to LARP that their for-profit company has our best interests in mind. - Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 6 days ago:
Leaving the door open to the idea that putting wheels onto grandmothers could make them into wagons
- Comment on Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol 6 days ago:
It comes from this 2019 post by Mike Masnick.
Unfortunately the atprotocol is more like Profits > People > Platforms
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 6 days ago:
Absolutely I was not trying to take away from your point! Cory Doctorow actually recently wrote a good piece on Wikipedia that you reminded me of.
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 6 days ago:
I agree with your overall point, but Wikipedia has a singular mission. Social settings can have wildy different missions from shitposting, to hobbies, study groups, to support groups, etc. There is no singular moderation ethos that can apply to all of them, that’s why decentralization is important in social media.
We want to algorithms to work for the people, not have people slaving for the algorithms.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 6 days ago:
If a grandmother had wheels would you consider her to be a wagon?
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 6 days ago:
No, please respond to the gif. If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a wagon?
BlueSky is centralized. Describing it as “federated” is being (intentionally, in your case) misleading.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
as federated as twitter (+/- .01%)
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
ok and bluesky is literally centralized
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
Your entire argument rests upon a definition of “decentralized” that you’ve completely made up.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
I’m sorry your credibility is at zero with me
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
I suppose your girlfriend goes to another school too, right? Just not motivated to visit?
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
A meaningless “idea”. Might as well say BlueSky has “concepts of a plan”.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
That’s funny and makes me with I didn’t delete my reddit account
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 1 week ago:
Actually there is an episode of VOY that proves they did evolve a special brian region to supress emotions
- Comment on The Last Days Of Social Media | as AI slop and sexbots kill mass social media, "a billion little gardens" rise in its place| NOEMA 1 week ago:
Good read. We’re seeing a return to “social” networks. The big platforms haven’t been social for years.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
portable identity
So like when bluesky starts having to pay back their investors I can portable my identity to… one of the other blueskies out there?
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
So does Reddit but you presumably see some value in federated platforms yea?
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
I’m always shocked by the number of of BlueSky fans that show up on Lemmy. If they don’t care about centralization why are they here and not on Reddit?
- Comment on YSK: Before she was the CEO of BlueSky Jay Graeber worked in cryptocurrency 1 week ago:
Her bills are paid now. Looks like a pattern of shady employment choices.
- Comment on YSK: Before she was the CEO of BlueSky Jay Graeber worked in cryptocurrency 1 week ago:
I do! Thanks for the information it is another piece of evidence as to the sketchiness
- Comment on YSK: Before she was the CEO of BlueSky Jay Graeber worked in cryptocurrency 1 week ago:
I never see people call Bluesky decentralised.
I find that surprising, because BlueSky uses that term: bsky.social/about/…/02-22-2024-open-social-web
Jay Graeber herself described it as such.
Here is the Verge calling it decentralized: theverge.com/…/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-interview-d…
Here is NYT calling it decentralized: www.nytimes.com/…/bluesky-x-alternative.html
Here is CNN calling decentralized: www.cnn.com/2023/04/28/tech/bluesky-social/
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
The tech press is talking to your normie friends?
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
Because, despite being wildly impractical, it’s technically built on tech that COULD be decentralized.
Yes exactly, it reminds me of the logic of cryptocurrency boosters. I just found out that the bluesky CEO (not to mention jack dorsey) are both crypto advocates so it makes a lot more sense now.
- Comment on YSK: Before she was the CEO of BlueSky Jay Graeber worked in cryptocurrency 1 week ago:
She’s currently the highest level role at a morally questionable company.
- Comment on YSK: Before she was the CEO of BlueSky Jay Graeber worked in cryptocurrency 1 week ago:
Because the claims of people involved with cryptocurrency are historically very untrustworthy, that’s why.
The thing that got me interested is that BlueSky says it’s “decentralized” but the more I look into it, it’s only “decentralized” using a very narrow, highly technical definition of the term “decentralized”.
Cryptocurrency is the same. People with a financial stake in cryptocurrency often say it is “decentralized” but it’s only true if you accept their extremely narrow definitions of what that word means.
