Gruber's take in that link is curious: does Bluesky lack the concept of defederation (yikes) or is he just assuming that even though Bluesky markets itself as "decentralized" almost no one will actually use it that way?
My hunch is the latter, and that he's intuiting what's going to be an important differentiator between Fediverse apps and their diversity of instances vs. how the AT Protocol is likely to be used in practice: as a shuttle between walled gardens.
This is the first time I've read "The Threadiverse" used to describe Lemmy and Kbin. I think that's an excellent way to differentiate them from the rest of the Fediverse apps, while recognizing that they're largely the same in purpose.
Yeah @maegul was the first to suggest it a few weeks ago. One of the reasons I like the term is how communal and organic it grew; it was suggested in a thread that was specifically about brainstorming for better names. Threadiverse got thrown in there as a potential option, and its been gaining organic usage ever since.
It was before it leaked that Meta's product will most likely be called Threads tho, which will be hilariously confusing. Not sure if the term threadiverse survives that.
A very interesting article. There are some valid arguments to let Meta join the fediverse, even if I disagree with them doing so.
Getting people to leave Facebook for another platform when all their family and friends are on there is an extremely difficult task. God knows I've tried. With Twitter it was easier since Elon Musk has been continuously fucking up the service and being an openly ignorant and intolerant asshat and playing god with everyone's accounts. People quickly sought alternatives and soon found Mastodon.
Recently the same thing happened with Reddit, but it was much softer. Redditors aren't so keen on letting go of their decade-old high-karma accounts and all the saved discussions and comments and the overall increasing popularity of the service in the media. You kind of feel like you're part of something big, whereas with Lemmy or Kbin it still feels like a very young underground community without any attention.
And I hate to say it, but Diaspora, which is the alternative to Facebook, really hasn't taken off at all, sadly. It needs to be brought back to the forefront along with Mastodon, Lemmy and KBin.
It was the third time. Rutte I, III, and IV all fell, but Rutte II served its entire term (though there were still some interim changes in its composition due to a few resignations of individual ministers).
Heh. During the Trump administration when all the Republican elected officials we’re shouting Free Speech In Social Media because Trump was getting factchecked on Twitter, we fantasized about a state-serves social media platform that would be as free-speechy as the state legally allowed.
Not that it would be useful except to point at it and say if you don’t moderate your platform, it’ll turn into this!
I expected some poor bureaucrat would have to clear all the CSAM but the furry-futa porn would remain, as would all the advertisements for penis pills and Nigerian princes. The hate speech would stay up but get tracked until someone got radicalized by it.
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