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- Comment on Amazon launches first Starlink-rival internet satellites 6 hours ago:
Also all the debris burning up on reentry. With starlink they want to have 42k satellites, each designed to only last 5 years. So that’d be about 2 tons of aluminum added to the atmosphere every day.
- Comment on Any fediverse like discord clones? 1 week ago:
Matrix has spaces, which are collections of rooms.
There’s also XMPP. It’s not quite the same as discord, but it’s another federated chat protocol.
It’s not federated, but revolt.chat is probably the closest open source discord alternative.
- Comment on Another round of anti-Trump protests hits US cities 1 week ago:
The’re not meaningless. There’s plenty of stronger strategies if you can coordinate them, but protests are still useful, and easier to get people started on.
Even if it doesn’t have an immediate effect, protests help get people connected and organized. They find others in their area they can work with, and groups learn to coordinate with each other better. It can inspire people seeing how many others agree with them, and get them more active and engaged.
- Comment on For me, it's going to be Fediverse or nothing 1 week ago:
Pixelfed has more than 100,000 active users, about 5 times what it was 6 months ago, so I wouldn’t really call it dead. And with the fediverse, pixelfed and mastodon can talk to each other, so even on less active platforms you can connect with millions of other people. Most of the accounts I follow on pixelfed are from mastodon.
- Comment on Use 'Bridgy Fed' to connect Mastodon and Bluesky 5 months ago:
Identities are somewhat decentrallized, but it’s pretty different from ActivityPub. People can host user data separately, but it isn’t really an instance. It is technically possible to have other relays (basically instances), but requires handling all the data on bluesky to connect to it. It would cost probably 50-100k USD/year, and that number will go up as more people join or if there’s more relays.