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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 8 minutes ago

Hilarious considering one of their flagship features is community tags for content moderation. You'd think the TERF enablers would suggest tagging it as "non-TERF" or whatever. But no. Fuck em. Bluesky sucks anyways. They have comically short DM lengths and don't allow images.

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 29 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Um what? The hate for JKR is quite active on bsky. OP smoking crack; we hate that bitch.

[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 8 hours ago

Jessie gender got their account suspended because they said they wish ill to JKR. Was like the most polite insults you could say lol

[–] v01dworks@piefed.social 14 points 15 hours ago

Yeah I’ve never seen anyone on Bsky say anything remotely positive about her

Or even neutral lol

[–] Nadru@lemmy.world 42 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

We told them not to use Bluesky and what will eventually happen but they didn't want to listen

[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 20 points 18 hours ago

They literally made tons of account on mastodon just to ignore them for this fucking bootleg of it, called bsky

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 40 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

This is why decentralisation is important. I assume the poster has no way to change Bluesky sites?

1000082849

Like this is why they should join a Fediverse instance. Like blahaj.zone will probably suit them

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 35 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

No matter what people say about Bluesky, I will always say we should be using mastodon, until Bluesky makes good on true federation, it's still a platform that can be controlled.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It did make good on true federation.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 13 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't their federation really fucking weird though? Like you can't run a federated server unless you're capable of handling 100% of all the posts on the entire platform? That's a pretty huge barrier, and one could argue it's less "federation" and more "mirroring".

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Personally, its as simple as the ATProtocol is hard connected to Bluesky full stop. If Bluesky goes under, then AT will definitely suffer or fail.

The fediverse (AKA ActivityPub) is not reliant on just one entity, its many many entities implementing the same protocol. So its MUCH more resilient than AT.

But the good news is that we don't need to choose, as long as AP and AT both exist and keep going its going to be fine. The only issue becomes if services start only using AT over AP. Then we get a Microsoft situation where embrace extend extinguish occurs and we all become reliant on one not so benevolent corporation.

Im still going to root for the more open source protocol for the above reasons.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 22 minutes ago

Do you mean it's reliant in some sort of technical way, or just that it is currently so dominated by BS that it's hard to meaningfully separate the protocol from the platform in practice? Kinda like if ML was 90% of the Lemmy market share?

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Both protocols are open source.
At can exist without bluesky, but most people are on it. I wouldn't say it's "hard connected" to it.
Also: there are various implementations of Atproto.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Lets agree to disagree.

Ive seen many times where the company behind a tech goes under and the tech suffers because of it. And AT seems to be hard connected to Bluesky given the wikipedia article and the codebase that I have seen. But having competing services is not necessarily a bad thing. It can mean they can both learn from one another (like yarn and npm did a long time ago) and we get a better service. I dont necessarily want AT to fail, but I do want them to become MUCH more distant to Bluesky.

And they have the most risk to become Enshittied given the crypto/investors/millionaires involved with BlueSky.

Ill still be supporting AP with my development time since its easier for me to stand up and work with.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If mastodon disappeared tomorrow it would be chaos. Loads of servers would shut down, and the rest would switch to a fork.
It would do irreapable damage to the fediverse, since mastodon basically controls the spec (the w3 thing is more of a collection of suggestions).

AT is infinietly easier to work with as well.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Again as a Dev, I have to disagree.

How can mastodon disappear? By definition, its on open platforms and self hosted solutions. It cant. And we are using the spec to talk right now.

And as a Dev AT really isn't easier to work with. I've tried hooking it up multiple times and while I can do it, its such a pain. And debug is pretty terrible experience. But its a an opinion on both sides.

You seem very invested in the protocol. Why if I may ask?

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Have you built anything on AP? It's a pain. A poorly documented headache inducing pain.

I didn't say mastodon would disappear, I said it would cause irreparable damage to the network. Bluesky/atproto won't disappear without Bluesky PBC, but it would cause irreparable damage to the network.

Obviously mastodon is in a better position for this to happen.

I'm not really invested in the protocol, I prefer AP honestly, but everyone here is annoyingly elitest about the fediverse.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Yep! Your using it now ;) at least a very little bit if your URL is correct.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

A little bit of what? sorry, this makes no sense to me.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, I like piefed a bit more. Much easier to work with and code is very well done. But I helped a bit on Lemmy back in the day. And some other fedi services. A very very small amount. Other devs are much more impressive.

I also tried creating a couple of AT services and helped a tiny bit of doc work. Didn't work out because of a variety of things. Mostly the pipes/thoughput you need, but also the setup. At the time there was no generic docker setup.

Anyways more than anyone wanted to know about all that. Now I just fart around on here.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Have you looked into jetstream?

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

No, this is: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/jetstream (probably should have linked to it, sorry :/ ) tl;dr, allows server side filtering, and uses json instead of DAG-CBOR

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

Ah yeah Google didn't come up with that. Coo

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No. Their federation does differ from the fediverse's, essentially, people have PDSes (personal data servers) which are just dumb datastores. These store data like your posts, likes, follows and blocks publicly.

AppViews are the other part, these take the data from PDSes and index it, and sort out interactions/notifications.

AppViewLite, for example, can be self hosted on any computer, and can be set to only take posts from select users, and discard posts after a while.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Is this federation, though? I've always thought of federation as a technical description of a platform's network topology, that it is several nodes communicating with one another to provide an overall platform.

Like, an AppViewLite is basically analogous to a Nostr replay and no one describes Nostr as federated.

A more interesting conversation is whether grafting federation onto Bluesky is worth the effort. If indexing the network can be done for a reasonable price, which it seems to be, then I don't see why people would put in the effort. If an app view/relay goes bad then you can just switch and get mostly the same experience.

I still believe that the ActivityPub solution of the multi stakeholder platform is a better direction, but I don't think the Bluesky idea of super easy migration should be dismissed out of hand like it so often is on this side of the conversation.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's still federation. It's just pull-based rather than push based.
Bluesky was made to be a decentralised twitter from the beginning.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Meh, I still don't see it as federation, but that might just be me projecting my own definition. Like, if we accept that bsky is federated then that would mean Bing is federated, just for arbitrary HTML rather than predetermined JSON.

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[–] monogram@feddit.nl 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It didn’t, bluesy made it able to selfhost your posts to keep their hosting costs down

All the pros of federation and being able to self host an instance don’t exist on Bluesy so why would you?

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

No. Their hosting costs would be the same regardless of how many people self host.

You get all the benefits of self hosting from appviews.

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If it did, ofcom would need to call up each person hosting content on the atprotocol, no, bluesky is the one and only that has affective access, with abilities to sensor, on your hosted content.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

No. On app.wafrn.net (fedi/bluesky tumblr clone) they have no control.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

I wish JK Rowling's brain turns into a mush

Oh wait that already happens

[–] Reality_Suit@lemmy.world 56 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I hope JK Rowling gets everything she deserves out of life. I hope life treats her as she does others. I wish upon her the consequences of her actions and words.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 30 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

lol. She’s rich and safe. Stop stressing yourself out about every little thing and go firebomb an health insurance office in her name.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 78 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I also wish ill to JK Rowling.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago

I just did so on Bluesky. With a "may she rot in hell" cherry on top.

They can suspend me forever for all I care.

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