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- Comment on Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, dead at 87 1 week ago:
Very sorry to hear that, a legend has passed. Just watched LGR’s react to the Computer Chronicles 1988 Christmas Episode the other day… I may need to schedule a Computer Chronicles marathon soon in light of this news.
- Comment on Reddit to lemmy reposter 1 week ago:
well that may be true for general news but if you’re looking for a more specific topic it won’t necessarily hold.
- Comment on Throwing ideas out for lemmy 1 week ago:
thanks, that’s interesting to see… I wouldn’t say that what we mean by Loops now has been around for that long but it does show he has been thinking about shortform video for a while and used the same name as the experimental feature had.
- Comment on Throwing ideas out for lemmy 1 week ago:
where are you getting the idea that Loops is five years old? Seems more like less than two years. From what I can tell it was publicly announced March 2024 (not yet available at that point): wedistribute.org/2024/03/loops-by-pixelfed/
In October 2024 it was starting to accept limited signups. The git repo has commits dating back to December 2024.
Federation for it is definitely still a WIP but I don’t see much reason to doubt that it will be a fediverse platform.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 week ago:
It’s not just a label but it guarantees practically nothing because it only means they are allowed to consider things other than shareholder profit. It doesn’t in any way ensure that they do and a PBC is mostly treated just the same as a for-profit company.
Obviously it isn’t just the team that owns Bluesky at this point since they have had multiple rounds where they’ve raised venture capital. That is an old bit of information that I think they still have up on the site despite it being both vague and obviously false.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 week ago:
They’re not. In practice PBC status doesn’t really limit them very much at all and is nothing like nonprofit.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 week ago:
yeah I’m aware… doesn’t really refute anything I said. If he holds a share then he can do what any investor can do and how much he can do depends on how big his share of the company is.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 week ago:
can always come up with rationalizations but the fact remains there are other platforms that will not “cost optimize” it away.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 week ago:
Nothing might be going too far. He left the board since it wasn’t good PR for them but Bluesky is not transparent about its ownership and Dorsey could well still have a stake in it.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 week ago:
no that was in fact the Bluesky CEO. See: techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/waffles-eat-bluesky/
- Comment on Lemmy instance subscription issues 3 weeks ago:
You don’t because everything here’s based on communities while Mastodon is on individual users. If you’d like something that does both in a single platform I think Mbin would be the best bet (although you can interact with Lemmy communities using Mastodon and other microblogging platforms to some extent)
- Comment on Looking for Software to Track Watched Shows 3 weeks ago:
Another vote for NeoDB. It’s been very useful for me and more people on fedi need to know about it.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
Do you have a proposal for how you’d solve the other half then or just think it isn’t enough?
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
Well it is fundamentally better because it does not only have a single party that makes all the calls thanks to the real decentralization. I wouldn’t call all of fediverse “the good guys” but I would call it “good”.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
Because they’re focused on just user numbers probably and many people from Turkey recently moved there. This decision might of course cause a decline anyway.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
Whether anything about it is for a good reason is very much a contested point. There are significant issues they introduced with the design while trying to address some that exist in ActivityPub.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
they could also choose to fight it exactly like Twitter under Dorsey did and as Wikipedia did (and won). Instead they’re instantly just obeying and even setting up to obey multiple other countries like Russia too.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
Yeah, one of my main gripes with them is how much they talk about decentralization and how much it stays as vaporware while they focus on the more pressing issue of the moment.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
Yes and the thread I linked to explained why it is not looking like it’s particularly well thought out for that case. Even beyond those issues they’ve always seemed very naive about what the company turning adversarial would actually be able to do but then again they obviously also have to worry about making money.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
I don’t think you got the point tbh. It isn’t about wanting to separate but about how dependent you are on Bluesky Corp. in every other scenario (and how hard it would be to deal with the situation if they decide to go rogue).
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
seems to be a fairly recent development that isn’t really documented much for now (not that running relays and some other components of the network is that well documented in general). Of course doing it that way also doesn’t help with how centralized the whole thing is…
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
PDS is not very significant, it’s just a tiny piece of the puzzle and doesn’t really prove anything about the architecture. See this for more on what I’m getting at: neuromatch.social/@jonny/113365406995624763
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
I have zero need to play games with you. Make your case if you have one.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if he held some share of it but Dorsey probably doesn’t have much to do with Bluesky anymore, at least in an official capacity. The more salient point is about not really trusting any single party that asserts centralized control over a platform.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
your home computers would probably not have the reliability or the disk performance required to run it.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
it keeps constantly growing by terabytes and needs to be fast too though. Means you’re going to pay more than most private individuals are able to long-term just for the privilege of running that one component.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
yeah the DM system is something completely exclusive to their official servers and that they just rolled up without caring at all about trying to keep up the pretense of wanting to build something decentralized.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
source for that?
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 8 months ago:
Your “example of self hosting” is not an example of self hosting the relay, just an appview which is still being fully dependent of other Bluesky services like the relay. It’s pretty unlikely that the relay would be at all practical to host on a RPi5. But even if it was the problem still remains that the network is set up in a way where self-hosting it only results in you creating your own separate bubble, not meaningfully participating in the official one.
I also doubt anyone has selfhosted relays long-term since right now there’s very little purpose to that and the resource requirements are massive as well as keep growing at a fast pace in terms of the disk space required.