It’s great! You always have full confidence in yourself, your actions and your convictions.

Nice. I hate that. I know my ideas suck and insincere praise just pisses me off.

Not until news media starts quoting posts on Bluesky as much as, or more than, they do Xitter.

There’s still the force of habit and larger engagement on Xitter for many established names.

And that’s fine. Bluesky is in its last phase of proving the important point. Once all the regular journalists move away from Twitter, it will have been proven, that migration away from a defacto “standard” platform can happen, even though it’s a pain in the ass.

But Ben didn’t have the spine or brain to stand against Putin.

I learned recently that there is such a thing as nontheist Quakers.

Invent a language, then teach it to a stranger against their will.

I don’t know if I’m ready to believe, but I hope decentralization is the next shape of the internet, as it was before.

For years I’ve watched smaller businesses give up on having websites in favor of just a Facebook page, or businesses built entirely on YouTube, Instagram or Facebook, with the very real risk of having the rug arbitrarily pulled out from under then for some dumb reason. It’s totally unsustainable to rely on the whims of these platforms to house your canonical home or as a base for your income stream.

Sure it’s nice to reach a wide audience by publishing to platforms with many users, but companies still need to be in control of their identity, so if some platform goes south, it’s not a catastrophe.

It’s still early days.

Reddit has been pretty good at not walling off content, but think of all the forums that died and went to hell, being tortured in the afterlife as a facebook group, where all the knowledge people spend time writing down, all the questions being answered, are trapped in the facebook ecosystem, where it’s close to impossible to find. This is by design too I believe. I used to be a mod on a hardware forum and we had rules that you needed to search before asking. The opponents to this rule said, that if people just searched, then the forum would die out (it didn’t) and I’m quite certain that information on facebook is hidden away, to keep engagement going, by having the same shit being asked and answered over and over in perpetuity.

I like the idea of going back to forums, but with the added benefits of federation. It’s the best of both worlds in my opinion.

I was called a fascist on Reddit for saying that punching nazis is a victimless crime, because punching people, merely because they want to eradicate other people, is a well-known staple of fascism.

I was just thinking the exact same thing. Things seems to have accelerated lately, but I don’t know if this is something regular users even notice or care about and it just feels significant to us because of the recent twitter and reddit idiocy.

I am super excited about all the attention the fediverse is getting. There are still a ton issues to be solved here, but decentralization feels like the next evolutionary step of the web.

One of the issues is “who’s gonna pay for it”? And I think the answer is something like “most users are”, in the sense that you’d pay your local instance, the same way you used to pay for newsgroups. Thus keeping it out of the hands of venture capitalists, hedge funds and billionaires in general, because hopefully we’ve learned that that’s a bad thing.

It’s an actual webapp, so no, it probably won’t unless they convert the codebase to react native.

I’ve only found a few things that I’m missing from a native experience and I’m sure it can be fixed.

Most annoyingly is the “scroll-to-top” by double tapping the top of the screen doesn’t work.

Otherwise I think in terms of smoothness it’s better than Mlem.