• blue_berry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1034·
    3 months ago

    Even if it doesnt have much impact on activitypub-fedi, I think this is good news for the fediverse in general. X is loosing more and more relevancy and microblogging is more and more happening on federating services.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      792·
      3 months ago

      I’m having trouble figuring out how bluesky is part of the fediverse at all.

      From my understanding it doesn’t federate with anything.

      It’s like saying a hamburger is really just a cheeseburger…you just need to add cheese.

  • pop@lemmy.mlEnglish
    923·
    3 months ago

    Techcrunch has basically been an ad network for companies who want to promote themselves. Other open source projects probably don’t have a budget to pay for an a̶r̶t̶i̶c̶l̶e̶ ad spot.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialEnglish
        264·
        3 months ago

        But control of the protocol - the definition and development - is still controlled by the for-profit company, right? It hasn’t been handed over to a nonprofit governance committee, has it?

        Federation or not, if Bluesky dominates the protocol, they can decide to stop federating and essentially kill the independent servers. Much like what Signal did. Sure, you can run your own Signal server, but without access to the dominant player’s market, and using a protocol that’s controlled monopolistically, it’s practically useless to do so - which is why almost nobody does it anymore.

      • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        201·
        3 months ago

        Is running a pds really equivalent to running your own instance? As I understand it, 2 friends running their own pds cannot federate without the centralized relay which still can’t be self hosted.

        • AutoPastry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          13·
          3 months ago

          You’re right, while there are advantages to hosting a pds, it doesn’t seem you can run a fully fledged instance at this time

        • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          Bluesky has no documentation for running a relay (indexing node). It doesn’t seem like they intend to have any documentation on it any time soon. But it is possible to set one up yourself. I don’t know anyone that has done so.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    593·
    3 months ago

    Mastodon.social just went over the 2 million user mark. The switch to fediverse and fediverse adjacent is going pretty quick.

    • SquiffSquiff@lemmy.worldEnglish
      346·
      3 months ago

      I’ve been on Mastodon for over a year and the content simply isn’t there. Several of the people that I follow on Twitter have tried moving or duplicating to Mastodon. They’ve had a fraction of the visibility and engagement from commenters that they would get on Twitter. Invariably after a few months they have essentially given up on it as a primary medium. For me the discoverability is essentially non-existent, which I don’t think is helped by the idea of it being based around instance-local communities, which have no meaning when you’re looking at something like Twitter.

      • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        262·
        3 months ago

        mastodon had their chance during the first exodus but they refused to listen to what twitter users wanted and shot down things like lists, quote tweets, and privacy controls.

        mastodon is very gatekeeper-y

      • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        195·
        3 months ago

        Maybe they should stop caring about visibility and engagement and concentrate on participating in, building and y’know enjoying a community?

        • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
          29·
          3 months ago

          You can not have one without the other. Influencers look for audiences. If the community has no influencer, it means that the audience is irrelevant or inexistent.

          • Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlEnglish
            131·
            3 months ago

            I preferred the Internet that isn’t driven by non-genuine posts by profit driven influencers. I am glad that those people don’t like mastodon so they don’t ruin another platform.

            • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
              63·
              3 months ago

              You are missing the point. The point is that there is nothing to ruin here.

              The Fediverse is by and large composed of antsy, narcissistic tweenagers who never created anything and use this space as some form of support network. They think that just because they are outcasts they are part of some counterculture movement (like the punks or the OG hackers from the early internet), but they miss the very important part that these movements need to create something meaningful.

              All they can do is ridicule (parts of) the status quo and resort to shoot down anything and anyone who is willing to take any risks to effect any type of change. And for all the talk about diversity and inclusivity, one can read any news headline or article here and know exactly what is going to be the reaction from the people

              The only way to break away from this unbearably boring monoculture is by bringing more people. We need to get of our comfort zones, dealing with differences and learning that (some) conflict is important. The alternative is stagnation, and culture-wise stagnation is the same as death.

              • Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlEnglish
                3·
                3 months ago

                Is anyone here opposed to bringing more people? I’m upset that people are going to an unfederated platform like BlueSky. I wish more people to join, no matter who they are.

                I haven’t been on mastodon much, but lemmy is quite diverse.

                • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  31·
                  3 months ago

                  but lemmy is quite diverse.

                  Apart from a bunch of thriving specialist techie communities, what I see there is mostly tiny spaces dominated by intolerant groupthink and tyrannical moderators.

                  Indeed I just had a very bad experience in one of those that left me (almost) regretting the R-site.

              • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                3 months ago

                How do you bring more people? I don’t think people would disagree with that, the hesitancy is from for profits and EEE. People want the fediverse to grow.

                • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
                  31·
                  3 months ago

                  for profits

                  The profit-motive and capitalism is not the problem. Corporatism is.

                  Mastodon and Lemmy are doomed to stay irrelevant for as long as their leaders believe that “the Community” will support them.

                  EEE

                  You can not EEE an open standard. XMPP didn’t die when Facebook and Google dropped it.

                  We need to assess the power imbalances and strategize accordingly. This whole “boycott Threads” reaction, for example, works in their favor. They already have hundreds of millions of users. Because of the whole “FediPact”, now we have lots of people migrating away from Mastodon because their instance does not let them follow some celebrity or NBA player, or sports journalist. Instead of blocking Threads, we should have worked to let people away from Twitter and into Threads so that they could learn and understand how federation works.

                  After this would be the time to go after the popular YouTubers and say “hey, why don’t you setup your instance instead of using Threads? You won’t lose your audience, and you have more control over your brand and online presence!”

                  This is what any sane person with minimal understanding of marketing would think. But instead of that, we got some reactionary crybabies that want to have the Fediverse only to themselves.

                • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
                  42·
                  3 months ago

                  Not a comeback. My point is that no one cares about this space at all. We had for the past two years everything in our favor to dismantle corporate-controlled social media, but the people that are here have ridiculously small ambitions and seem to keep the Fediverse completely irrelevant.

                  How else can I put it? Imagine that you live in corner of the woods of Bumfuck Alabama and you say, “I’m so glad we don’t have McDonalds around here”, like it was some reason to be proud. It’s not, it just means that you live in a place so desolate that not even McDonalds thinks it’s worth it to open a shop there.

      • QuarterSwede@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        3 months ago

        My experience has been better. User engagement is much higher per follower and the discussions don’t devolve. They’re much more useful and/or interesting. KPIs don’t measure everything.

        • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Many people are most interested in profit as their only KPI and mastodon puts up a lot of hurdles for those people.

          • Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlEnglish
            71·
            3 months ago

            It’s not the best platform for the profit driven, and I much prefer it that way.

            • QuarterSwede@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              This exactly. I was saying that as a user, not a creator. I make money away from social media so I don’t care to bring that to my personal space.

      • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
        156·
        3 months ago

        Guess it’s not for you then. I’m having a blast. A lot of my friends are now in it and the last year or so have been great.

        And more and more people seem to be moving.

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
        135·
        3 months ago

        „The content“ is there. Its just the addiction inducing, never ending dopamine that doesnt flow as freely which is great.

        If you follow the topics that are most prevalent on the fedi (eg freedom, activism, technology, diversity) you will not run out unless you scroll for many hours a day, which is suggests you find yourself a hobby.

        Also, the self fulfilling prophecy of „the fediverse is too small, I go to big platform“ will keep the fediverse small.

        Be the change you want to see.

        • SquiffSquiff@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          I feel this and some of the other comments in this thread are missing the point. It’s not about me and my followers. It’s about the news sources and topics that I search for or follow. They simply haven’t moved to Mastodon and where notable individuals that I follow have tried, it simply hasn’t worked out due to lack of interest. I’m not interested in the fediverse as a topic in itself, I’m interested in the topics and events I want to follow. Something happens and I can find and read and watch clips about it on Twitter. Not so Mastodon.

          • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            Bluesky is probably going to capture more of that than Mastodon. But threads is similarly struggling to develop it as well and they have very low barrier for new signups for anyone with a Facebook or Instagram account.

          • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
            44·
            3 months ago

            You are missing the point.

            If lucifer was the only one having ice cream and you wanted ice cream, you would have to either go to lucifer or make your own (or ask someone to do it for you).

            This is what the fediverse is about. Regaining control of our media. Your point that it is in any way too lacking to join or invest time into is self defeating as you and many others are needed to get it to that point.

            So I‘m saying either accept that your work is needed to get any non billionaire owned/non corporate platform to work or stop pretending you care about your data.

            • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              3 months ago

              You’re both right.

              If there aren’t people building this alternative, in their free time, for free, then it won’t exist. Fair enough. Much credit to them.

              But it looks like @SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world is just an ordinary user with a busy life who wants to consume content in a way that better respects their privacy and autonomy. That is also a fair demand. Not everyone needs to be a producer.

        • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
          83·
          3 months ago

          freedom, activism, technology, diversity

          Boring, boring, boring, boring. This is all “meta-converaation”, like this exact thread.

          Where are the musicians, the woodworkers, the DIYers, the athletes, the architects, the photographers, the wannabe chefs, the contrarian educators who do not toe the line of Academia?

      • mycodesucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        118·
        3 months ago

        Maybe, just maybe, if your followers aren’t willing to give up something vile because it’s giving them a dopamine hit, they’re not adding as much value to your life as you think.

        • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
          31·
          3 months ago

          There is absolutely nothing “vile” about quote tweets. When used properly, it is used to enrich a discussion. It’s not just because some idiot minority abuses a feature that it should be removed entirely. If well meaning people look at two different systems, and one of them is arbitrarily gutted of useful functionality, guess which one they will choose?

          • mycodesucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Sure, at the surface level of tweeting back and forth, there is nothing vile. But the very act of using the platform funds an agent of chaos that is doing very real harm, and to ignore that because it is inconvenient is at the most charitable interpretation a selfish and callous act. There are other means of discourse, and those with input that is valuable will follow you.

            • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              I am saying “quote tweets” as a reference to the functionality, not the usage of Twitter itself.

              Mastodon refuses to implement the functionality, but it is supported on others: Soapbox, Akkoma…

  • MyOpinion@lemm.eeEnglish
    5510·
    3 months ago

    Blue sky leads to the same trap Twitter was. A place that will be purchased by some asshole that shits on everyone for money.

    • Axum@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      296·
      3 months ago

      You’ll be shocked to know that bluesky is open source then and PDS is well on its way to allowing you to host your own instance.

        • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Anything that you’re not willing and able to keep financially sustained yet rely upon will likely be used against you by someone with more resources. This is why groups like Fosstodon, Beehaw, and Fedihosting Foundation stand out in these spaces. They are both transparent and financially sustainable. But most of that sustainability relies on unpaid volunteer labor.

  • Mwas alt (prob)@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    292·
    3 months ago

    i dont like bluesky bcs its missing alot of features compared to mastodon and twitter also when you host bluesky the server you hosted you cant view bsky.social so thats why i use mastodon alongside

  • Mio@feddit.nuEnglish
    24·
    3 months ago

    Good. Competition is good. If they suceed or fail just means we learn and build a better product.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    173·
    3 months ago

    It would be interesting to know more about the additional users. The banning of Shitter in Brazil is very much tied to internal politics and AFAIK it might be the Brazilian equivalent to MAGA that is currently mass-migrating to Bluesky.

    If so, this might be a bad thing for them, as they probably don’t want to get perceived as the Brazilian truth.social.

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      it might be the Brazilian equivalent to MAGA that is currently mass-migrating to Bluesky.

      actually, the opposite. The MAGA types are doing whatever they can to continue sucking on Elon’s balls. It’s journos and normies who are moving to Bluesky.

    • orgrinrt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      I would assume that since this whole thing is more or less a result of left-ish policy, and the opponent in the scenario is the far-right platform formerly known as Twitter, lead by the aspiring far-right icon Musk, the right-wingers would more likely opt to complain, cry several rivers and eventually turn to alternatives catered specifically for them (not even sure which ones are still alive after former tweetyplace took the crown) instead.

      Haven’t done a vibe check on bluesky, but I assume it almost has to be more tolerant and potentially more progressive-ish than the old nazibirdhouse. If you lean towards the far right, why choose that, if alternatives exist?

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        Bluesky is explicitly promoting their system as “choose your own censorship” kind of deal, which in the way it is framed could look very attractive to right-wingers looking for an alternative platform. While this is technically also true for the Fediverse, it isn’t promoted as such, and rather has a reputation for the opposite, as most fedi server admins are center-left leaning.

        Bluesky might be also more left-leaning right now as obviously there is little reason for right-wingers elsewhere to switch away from Shitter to another (mostly) centralised platform, but given the overall low user numbers this could switch very quickly.

        I guess we will have to see how this develops over time and get some answers from Brazilians that have a deeper understanding of the current social dynamics there.

        Due to the language divide it might end up as two distinct social spheres, like Fedi’s Japanese bubble, but that’s a best case scenario for Bluesky I guess.

        • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          Bluesky is explicitly promoting their system as “choose your own censorship” kind of deal

          That’s why I don’t use it. I am not ok with bigots sharing my network. This is true whether I can see them or not. If they’re welcome, then I won’t be there.

          Let me know when I can disconnect from spaces that host bigots rather than just hiding them

          • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            3 months ago

            This reads like satire. These are people you’re talking about, probably your fellow citizens. Their wrong opinions are not going to pollute you from the other side of a wall. Seeing (apparently sincere) takes like this really makes me worried about the future of democracy.

            • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              51·
              3 months ago

              Let me clarify so I understand your position

              1. I said why I don’t use Bluesky. I didn’t say it shouldn’t exist, or that other people shouldn’t use it. I didn’t pass judgement on people who do use it, or suggest that their having a different opinion on how to deal with bigotry is an issue. I simply said why I don’t use it

              2. You then insisted that I am the problem with democracy, despite you being the person insisting that everyone has to do things your preferred way?

              Do I understand your position correctly?

              • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                3 months ago

                Sort of. Essentially I am saying that in a democracy we need to talk to each other, and sticking one’s fingers in one’s ears and chanting “lalalala I can’t hear you” seems like a poor way to go about that. These people can vote too. Like it or not, you have an interest in understanding what makes them tick and what might help them to see the world in a way more conducive to you.

                • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  Essentially I am saying that in a democracy we need to talk to each other

                  That doesn’t happen on bluesky either though. The moderation approach on bluesky means that people can control who they see, and who can interact with them. So people can still remove bigots from their timeline.

                  I also take issue with your insistence that bigots have the right to be bigoted and spread hate, and that their targets are somehow in the wrong for not wanting to be exposed to that hate.

    • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Brazilian MAGA = Most Bolsonaro supporters. Of course, there are some decent people who aren’t 100% fanatic, but most of them would be the equivalent to those hat-wearers.

    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
      1·
      3 months ago

      Even though I still don’t understand those platforms, I had a look at the site. It seems like 80+ percent of the content is from Brazil or at least in Portugese.

      If you enable and check nsfw content it is also 80+ percent dicks and furry content. One of the dick posts was a self declared “15y” which I promptly reported (a day later the posts & profile seem to be gone, presumably banned, which is good). You can mute hash tags of your choice, but then 90+ percent of the feed will be muted posts or those that did not get caught because they did not use hash tags. Muted users still show up in those feeds too, you have to properly block them to hide them but that is also incredibly tedious when it is basically all that there is.

      A lot of posts also seem to just be weird spam, using the same odd list of hash tags that I can’t make sense of (but maybe that’s just weird local online trends there). I tried looking for various topics but could only find fringe posts & accounts, worse than even here. But that again might just come down to the fact that the majority of users seem to be from Brazil, so the English content is simply lacking on all fronts. You can specify languages in your profile, but I did not notice to what purpose when it still shows you all the non English stuff.

      Aside from all that I once again couldn’t figure out what to do, just like on Twitter back then or on Mastodon. I suppose those platforms and their hype will remain a mystery to me. But I can’t help but wonder how people from Twitter who think about switching will react to this experience though…

  • figaro@lemdro.idEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    If I have mastodon, how and when can I follow Blue sky users? I read something about an adapter server or something, but I don’t know what that means in a practical sense.

    • timconspicuous@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      There is Bridgy Fed, which bridges accounts over to the other side if they follow the respective Bridgy Fed account on their platform. This is opt-ín though, so you can’t just follow anyone, they need to have followed @ap.brid.gy on Bluesky. To have your interactions bridged you need to follow @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy.

      If the account you want to follow is not bridged and you are okay with just reading their posts, you can also use a service like RSS Parrot as every Bluesky account also serves as an RSS feed.

      • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Just an FYI for the RSS thing: if a Bluesky account is set to be viewable to logged-in users only, its RSS feed will not work. It only works if the profile is viewable publicly without logging in.

  • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Is there an easy to understand explanation to the differences of the AT Protocol and ActivityPub?

    • arudesalad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      iirc, atprotocol was made to bring some features of mainstream social media to the fediverse that activitypub maintainer have said they won’t be adding. They explain other reasons in their faq

      • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Many of the functions provided by a Mastodon service is split into separate services in the AT Protocol. This means there are instances that just handle an end users data, instances that just handle indexing and streaming out the amalgamated end user data being streamed to the “relay”, there are instances that are just filtering the stream from the indexing relay. so basically the various backend parts are modular with the AT Protocol rather than monolithic as is assumed by the ActivityPub protocol where separation is assumed to be only between the frontend and backend of the service.