bluesky

To kind of summarize some of the recent #Bluesky drama. Yesterday Bluesky changed their Terms of Service to require binding arbitration. Users are unhappy, but there's nothing they can do about it because Bluesky is not decentralized and there is no place they can go. Today, Bluesky banned a user for wishing ill of J.K. Rowling for her anti-trans hate. Users are very unhappy, but there's nothing they can do about it because Bluesky is not decentralized and there is no place they can go.

Get it?

Is someone working on updating #Bluesky to support the latest #PNG spec? (Which includes animated PNG #APNG.)#ATmosphere

《讲个笑话，一个自称去中心化的社交平台因为几台服务器出问题而卡进只读模式》

#Bluesky #去中心化

ref= https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kksuqnd23j2m

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as:Public will support (one-way) bridging to #BlueSky in a future release, along with account search (they both require that I add the concept of accounts)

As always, collection of statuses occurs from public firehose feeds, so instance blocks will not affect collection or bridging.

The amount of bullying I'm seeing towards the developers of an already-existing bridge is simply unacceptable. One of the primary goals behind the #asPublic project is to show that this sort of antisocial behavior is not how one gets what they want.

#mastoadmin #fediblock

Pack Your Corporate Social Media Go Bag

If you use #Bluesky or #Substack have an escape plan!

As repeatedly demonstrated, corporate platforms are vulnerable. Will you be ready when they inevitably bend to data exploitation, political manipulation and censorship? Has it already started?

Have a plan to evacuate to Public Social Media. Create backup accounts on #Mastodon and #Ghost and use them as secondaries. Be prepared. Begin building your online presence free from corporate overlords.

Bluesky has announced that today they have started with federation, allowing anyone to host their own data on the #bluesky network.

In a blog post they announced that anyone can now host their own PDS, framing it as a way to control your own data, and also explaining how it differs from Mastodon.

Bluesky describes it as an 'early access of federation for self-hosters'.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web

体验了市面大部分替代 X 的去中心化平台：

mastodon 体验还行，比较依赖实例站长的维护，关站账号会没，目前内容大多是碎碎念的树洞文。

bluesky 体验最接近 twitter，但中文的内容较少，优势是 AT 可以无缝迁移账号，且可绑定自己的域名挺酷的。

nostr 太过极客，添加个好友还需要一串公钥（可能我不会），客户端不够流畅。

threads 感觉小扎要把所有的社交类型都要涉及遍了，已有 ins 不想在用 fb 系产品了，目前注销了。

X 中心化，内容太丰富，停不下来。

#mastodon
#bluesky
#nostr
#threads

"Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem. AWS was becoming too costly, so #Bluesky moved over to dedicated data centers and bare-metal machines."

That's not something you read every day.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

In the latest episode of #DotSocial I interview @snarfed.org, a passionate bridge builder with a focus on connecting people across the open web and the #fediverse. His latest work, #BridgyFed, connects #ActivityPub and #ATProtocol resulting in excitement, critique and *lots* of discussion.

Ryan and I talk about the parallel communities on #Mastodon and #Bluesky, their shared desire to create an open social web and the pros and cons of their underlying protocols, #ActivityPub and #ATProtocol. Can or should these be bridged? If so, how? As whole new communities continue to join the fediverse, how should the user experience evolve?

Listen to this excellent discussion on our @PeerTube instance or wherever you get your #podcasts.

https://flipboard.video/w/2Jj46hJaUQQG5TuiBYi9TR

Jack Dorsey is furious that #Bluesky has attracted "very very common" people. He also doesn't like the idea of moderation tools facilitating the banning of racists.

All these tech billionaires are like a version of the movie Big, in which a pre-adolescent boy wakes up in the body of an aging Howard Hughes. Or Colonel Kurtz. Or a sardine.
#JackDorsey

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Just pushed a new release, adding support of login and crosspost via #Bluesky / #ATProto https://github.com/neodb-social/neodb/releases/tag/0.10.3rc1

although lack of certain features, e.g. CW on text (it's on attachment atm) and editing (which is supported in protocol but not on flagship instance), the pds service itself and libraries (shout out to atproto.blue) works surprisingly well.

I'm seriously considering if NeoDB should be dual-stack in the long term.

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Discovered this morning that Maven https://heymaven.com (a social media startup who's CEO is ex OpenAI "Ken Stanley: leading the Open-Endedness Team at OpenAI") is mass importing public posts from the #fediverse with no links back to the original and no way to delete them. It seems there is no Opt-out or Opt-in mechanism at all. It also has posts from #Bluesky pulled in via @bsky.brid.gy that are also not linked back to the original.

Here's an example: https://app.heymaven.com/profile/66927

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Super cool and powerful to see how #BlueSky is supporting curated lists using custom hashtags. Hopefully this will be a feature option in #Mastodon soon as well!

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jcoy7v3a2t4rcfdh6i4kza25/feed/astro

#MediaLit #edtechSR #SocialMedia #GeekOfTheWeek #edtech #SpaceEd

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Just a note saying how my #Fediverse experience has been made immeasurably richer for being able to take in & engage w/ carefully curated #Threads users, #BlueSky bridged users, #WordPress ActivityPub enabled blogs, #Flipboard Federated accounts, bridged #Podcast episodes, #PixelFed photos, & Peertube videos. All from one Mastodon account.

I'm grateful for the moderation tools to mute, block and curate all of this, and the Mastodon lists to make them all digestable and not just info overload.

Well hello #mastodon. I deactivated my #bluesky account b/c of reply guy sea lioning and antagonism toward Black women experts there. Very bummed about it b/c I invested a lot in growing my followers there, made some great connections, and believe it’s exponentially better than the site formally known as #Twitter. I might go back, I don’t know but the #moderation tools weren’t addressing my needs. Guess I’ll try again to learn this place 👋🏽

#socialmedia #migration #BlackFedi #blackmastodon

Don't send #Bluesky an image of your government photo ID just to get "verified" with them. Seriously. And especially not via a #Google Form. Unless you're a serious masochist, I suppose.

The latest on Twitter / X

It appears that many people outside of the UK have little idea what has been taking place over the past week here and Elon Musk's role in it.

Here's a thread explaining a bit more and why so many people in the UK are leaving X 🧵 👇

#X #Twitter #UKRiots #massmigration #socialmedia #mastodon #Threads #Bluesky

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.8 👩‍🚀

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: #Friendica)

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/

with shout-outs to @anubis2814 @dansup @fedidb @heidilifeldman @tchambers @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews @ryanbroderick @caseynewton @ferrante @informapirata @russandro @hankg @tio

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #activitypub #diaspora #bluesky #tumblr

It's ALMOST the weekend & since I'm posting early this week, here's the THU-THU #Fediverse & #Bluesky 🦋#WatchPartyCalendar for AUG. 15-22 📅

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🥳 🎉 It's the weekend & the AUG. 9-15 weekly #Fediverse & #Bluesky 🦋#WatchPartyCalendar 📅 *UPDATE: New event #ElleryQueen75 *

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I'm on fedi & promote it cause it has the potential to fix the control over cultural attention by the wealthy and govts via mass media as documented by Chomsky. Based on what #bluesky did last week and still refuses to acknowledge, it's obvious they don't share my goals. They can't be allowed to be the future of social media, no matter how many times they claim to care about decentralization. And why has none of our tech press reported on this?

#SocialWeb #LiberalValues

https://www.turkishminute.com/2025/04/17/bluesky-restrict-access-72-account-turk-amid-government-pressure7/

You want a fast-growing dominant social network owned by a billionaire made to extort you for profit.

I want a thoughtfully-built, community-grown social ecosystem made to connect people.

We are not the same.

#Fediverse #BlueSky #Threads #SocialNetwork #Mastodon

Here's the THU-THU #Fediverse & #Bluesky🦋#WatchPartyCalendar for AUG 22-29 📅

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Welcome fall 🍁 Here's the THU-THU #Fediverse & #Bluesky🦋#WatchPartyCalendar (SEP 5-12)🍂

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