"I'm not on Bluesky and I don't have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this in 2023: I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will

When a platform can hold the people you care about or rely upon hostage – when it can credibly threaten you with disconnection and exile – that platform can abuse you in lots of ways without losing your business. In other words, they can enshittify their service."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21445676

Apparently openvibe isn't open source, you might say sorasns but my iPhone 8 doesn't get iOS 18, I can't be bothered to Download an app for both Mastodon & Bluesky each

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16165411

Social media platform Bluesky says it has seen a surge in signups in the United Kingdom in recent days.

Since X owner Elon Musk made controversial comments about the riots in the UK, a number of influential figures said they would leave the platform or scale back their use, including home office minister Jess Philips.

Now, Bluesky says it has seen a 60% jump in general activity from accounts in the UK, with several MPs also joining the platform recently.

...

"For 5 out of the last 7 days, the UK had the most Bluesky signups of any country," said Bluesky in a statement on Monday.

Bridgy Fed can automatically generate a Bluesky presence for your site. You can also use it to follow any site that has microformats2 or an RSS/Atom feed. Includes profiles, posts, IndieWeb interactions, etc. Source

Examples:

• @electrek.co.web.brid.gy
• @nature.com.web.brid.gy
• @join-lemmy.org.web.brid.gy

Taurus Shield will expand the scope of their responsibilities as a result.

The level of control Bluesky gives users with custom feeds is simply incredible. I could recreate the Mastodon newsfeed without any coding whatsoever.

All I had to do was create a feed on Skyfeed that

• Inputs @aendra.com's list of verified news agencies (+ a couple of unofficial news accounts)
• sort using the HackerNews ranking algorithm

That's all I needed to do. Here is my tweaked version of this (no login necessary)..

{
    "displayName": "📰News (Trending)",
    "blocks": [
        {
            "type": "input",
            "inputType": "list",
            "id": "aaao2rd2fwsmg",
            "": 86400,
            "listUri": "at://did:plc:kkf4naxqmweop7dv4l2iqqf5/app.bsky.graph.list/3jzmo456b6j2t"
        },
        {
            "type": "input",
            "inputType": "list",
            "id": "aaaknghipawwq",
            "listUri": "at://did:plc:kkf4naxqmweop7dv4l2iqqf5/app.bsky.graph.list/3kc3ye6hmsd2y",
            "historySeconds": 86400
        },
        {
            "type": "input",
            "inputType": "list",
            "id": "aaae7ioefxgno",
            "listUri": "at://did:plc:sbl65o3w4adma7vbmovhyciy/app.bsky.graph.list/3krtw4uufwc2u",
            "historySeconds": 86400
        },
        {
            "type": "remove",
            "subject": "labels",
            "value": null,
            "id": "aaapxkh2aihps",
            "labels": [
                "did:plc:bpkpvmwpd3nr2ry4btt55ack/ai-imagery"
            ]
        },
        {
            "type": "sort",
            "sortType": "hn",
            "id": "aaaortezvepki",
            "gravity": "1.8",
            "sortDirection": "desc"
        }
    ],
    "license": "EUPL-1.2"
}

I am Germany originated as a Twitter account in 2012, and has been going for 12 years. I am the latest curator and we're trying to see if we can revitalise the concept on Bluesky as well!