Um what? The hate for JKR is quite active on bsky. OP smoking crack; we hate that bitch.
Jessie gender got their account suspended because they said they wish ill to JKR. Was like the most polite insults you could say lol
Yeah I’ve never seen anyone on Bsky say anything remotely positive about her
Or even neutral lol
We told them not to use Bluesky and what will eventually happen but they didn’t want to listen
They literally made tons of account on mastodon just to ignore them for this fucking bootleg of it, called bsky
I have a bluesky account on an alternate server, so they can’t ban me for wishing ill on JK Rowling, even if they wanted to.
I also wish ill to JK Rowling.
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.
This is why decentralisation is important. I assume the poster has no way to change Bluesky sites?
Like this is why they should join a Fediverse instance. Like blahaj.zone will probably suit them
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.
It did make good on true federation.
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”.
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.
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?
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.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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.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.
It depends on your definition of federation.
It’s defined as: “A system where various entities collaborate and share resources”.
Nodes definitely collaborate, and resources (data) is shared.
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?
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.
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.
No. On app.wafrn.net (fedi/bluesky tumblr clone) they have no control.
Looks like app.wafrn.net still depends on the relay (that thing that costs billions in hosting)
app.wafrn.net does use bluesky’s relay, but they can switch to another one (like atproto.africa).
Hosting relays has gotten cheaper, it’s only about $34 a month now.
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.
lol. She’s rich and safe. Stop stressing yourself out about every little thing and go firebomb an health insurance office in her name.
I wish JK Rowling’s brain turns into a mush
Oh wait that already happens
I hope she gets Parkinson’s and cant write anymore.
Have you read Harry Potter? It’s not like she can write as It is.
I have read the entire Harry Potter series (before she outed herself as being scum). And calling her writing bad is disingenuous. She isn’t a bad writer, or more accurately she wasn’t. (It’s notable that her writing started to degrade very sharply not long after she outed herself as a TERF).
She is a fucking horrid human being as are Orson Scott Card and Scott Adams along with a few others who’s true colors shined through due to the pervasive nature of social media. But to blandly call their works “shitty” just as a lazy dig at them degrades you, not them. It makes your opinion worthless.
J.K. Rowling is an absolute dipshit asswipe who should be tarred, feathered, and run out on a rail anywhere she goes. And more people should say so as loudly as possible. But the Harry Potter books were beloved by millions for a reason. If only she had gone blind, deaf, and dumb after she finished writing them. 😒
I thought the books were aggressively mediocre YA trash from the start.
Careful not to cut yourself on that edge.
Eh, her works may not be so poorly written as to be shitty, but they’re just a pretty average story with a good editor. Her action scenes were average, tension building slightly above, and her characters were below. I’m sure if you went through the books with a fine tooth comb you could find a witty sentence or interesting paragraph, but nothing that would really stand out.
I too am roundly disappointed at the prose of that children’s series largely appealing to children and not adults who haven’t moved on after thirty years
As you should be. Kids books should be just as good as adult books. Maybe not for the adults, but for the kids reading them.
Having lower standards just because ‘it’s for kids,’ is ridiculous.
It’s not like disney or dreamworks to half ass their kid oriented movies. They’re often masterpieces in their own right. There’s good reason that the lion king, the land before time, the road to el dorado, etc., are all viewed fondly even today. Hell, take it out of animation, even. Secondhand lions, wizard of oz, charlie and the chocolate factory… great stuff.
Writing for kids can be just as complicated and well done in characters, setting, and ‘elements’ of a story like tension. Compare the hobbit to harry potter. The words tolkien chose may have been simple, in comparison to his the lord of the rings novels, but everything else was pretty damn good.
Brb reading Dubliners to elementary students and making fun of them when they don’t have an opinion on the themes of Irish nationalism and its implications in an ever more interconnected world.
This obviously has nothing on the complex thought presented by UP, of course. My 500 page thesis on its handling of grief (tl;Dr talking dogs heal all wounds) will shortly follow.
Compare Harry Potter with Animorphs and then see if you can still make this comparison with a straight face afterward. One of these two series treats it’s elementary student audience with respect, and is widely beloved because of it. It ain’t HP.
If your books need real world themes and connections to be good, maybe you should try improving their writing instead.
JK can Rot in Piss for all I care.
The bird site was broken before the psycho took over. Just brought the same shit to the new site.
Broke T&Cs got banned, Rowling is irrelevant in this context. You think the T&Cs breach should be ignored because it’s Rowling?
2 day old account. First and only engagement is to defend a transphobe…
Thanks Ada <3
Wishing someone bad fortune is not wishing harm.
They are absolutely equivalent and it’s ridiculous to argue otherwise.
I wish that her socks always feel damp.
I wish that her sleeves always get wet when she’s washing her hands.
I wish that she always loses when gambling on a fart.
Not trying to defend her at all, but I seriously doubt those are actual examples of the things being said and even if, all of this would cause a regular person psychological distress (or “harm”, even if not physical).
I don’t know how Bulesky’s TOS are worded exactly, but it feels a bit like that whole “Guns don’t kill people, I kill people. With guns.” motif.
Personally, I think wishing harm on people that cause harm is completely OK. As for my wishes, those are inconveniences at most.
Maybe, I can’t really comment on what she did or “deserves” for it. I just know she made some transphobic remarks in the past, which is messed up. But there’s still a difference between someone with a twisted world view and Trump/Putin who actually incarcerate and sponsor torture of people.
However, the discussion was on whether something is “harmful” or not and you may actually argue that her BS doesn’t physically “harm” anyone either, if you try to make that point.
Rowling spends her considerable fortune to actively influence policy to hurt trans people.
No they’re not? Wanting the next Harry Potter thing to flop and her lose a bunch of money is wishing misfortune, but it’s hardly wishing harm.
Well it’s one thing to specify you’re wishing harm to her finances. But saying you wish someone ill without specifying absolutely implies wishing them harm.
But saying you wish someone ill without specifying absolutely implies wishing them harm.
IDK, I’ve never taken it to mean wanting harm.
Nah it kinda just sounds like they don’t like her
I miss the part where that’s my problem
Doublespeak
What? Wanting misfortune to befall someone is literally what wishing someone ill means?
My mistake, the misfortune you are wishing is harmless misfortune, I see now
