To complete the network, relays are required on ATProto and apparently could be expensive to host, so right now, it appears the only relay is hosted by BlueSky the company. Which makes things slightly centralized.
A number I've seen quoted multiple times now is ~$150 per month to host a relay (Source). Which explains why Whitewind, Smokesignal and Frontpage don't host one, they are mostly still small projects by individual talented devs, but imo if that number is true, it really doesn't seem too outlandish that someone might go for it.
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 @[email protected].
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.
Such gross weirdo-behavior to call 900k completely normal people looking to socialize online bots, get off your high horse
Zu den Autoren: Knut Bergmann und Matthias Diermeier arbeiten im Cluster »Demokratie, Gesellschaft, Marktwirtschaft« am Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW).
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Bei der Europawahl habe ich erneut vor aus Überzeugung MERA25 zu wählen, die Partei des ehemaligen griechischen Finanzministers Yanis Varoufakis. Wird aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach an der 2%-Hürde scheitern, aber gerade was "die Grünen nicht grün genug, die Linken nicht links genug" angeht, fühle ich vertritt MERA25 am besten meine Positionen.
Nice! I've been enjoying the "Quiet Posters" feed, which shows only posts by people I follow that don't regularly post, so I might miss the rare times that they do! :)
If you want your timeline to be just a chronological timeline, you can also subscribe to that feed and delete all others. Bluesky isn't Threads, no one is forcing any algorithm on you that you don't want, this is part of the decentralized nature of Bluesky.
Also, I don't think there is a clear line between "algorithmic" and "non-algorithmic" social media. If you use Mastodon with the Mammoth app and its "For You" feed, is it algorithmic or non-algorithmic? If I sort my Lemmy timeline by "hot", do I not use an algorithm?
The algorithms/feeds are easily the best part about Bluesky because they can be custom-made. If you don't like the feeds provided by Bluesky, you can just make one of your own that displays what you want to see. I use many such feeds.
They give you only so many free articles per month, I had to circumvent a paywall as well
I'm very curious how this will all shake out. I can understand all of you who want to block Threads and the only two instances that I am on myself are going to do exactly that, but it seems tremendously likely that the flagship instance of the fediverse, mastodon.social, will federate and it will have a massive impact on not just the culture, but also on the codebase. For example I wonder what services will go for feature parity and add features like voice notes which Threads added recently. Oh and culture-wise, with POTUS joining Threads, big institutions like the White House will suddenly appear on the fediverse.
Still holding out hope that a bunch of new users and new ideas will rejuvenate the fediverse, in any case 2024 should be a big year for it.
I have big sympathies for FireFish, but I feel like the target audiences so far are very different. Maybe call it the network effect, but it's difficult for me to imagine a tumblr user who maybe is used to blogging about their SuperWhoLock fandoms moving to FireFish where there probably is no big audience for that. At the same time I would want to see these users and their niches in the Fediverse.
There is a very particular culture that is unique to tumblr which I don't see moving somewhere else.
Tumblr’s ‘fediverse’ integration is still being worked on, says owner and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg
Despite delays, the plan to connect Tumblr's blogging site to the wider world of decentralized social media, also known as the "fediverse," is still on,
![Tumblr's 'fediverse' integration is still being worked on, says owner and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg | TechCrunch](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ac0b0dd0-9db1-4a07-a7a5-e769f4b79df1.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
There were peaceful protests in Germany. Nobody had a problem with those.
Nobody? Really? You don't think the right-wing Springer press (just to name the most glaring example) that is ideologically allied with ultranationalists in Israel had a problem with those? That they wouldn't have cried foul even if the protests where utterly devoid of any radicals? That they wouldn't have tried to censor even your imagined peaceful protests?
«President of the European Council» to «President of the European Union»
ugh, not too fond of this, by name alone it gives the impression of the highest office and yet it's not a position that voters can vote on (at best highly indirectly through national elections)
I wish they would address the democratic deficit, von der Leyen is proof enough that voters still can't even pick the president of the Commission, how do you expect them to have a high turnout in elections?
unfortunately it’s limited to what Bluesky wants which is just microblogging while ActivityPub is more flexible (see: Mastodon, Lemmy, Funkwhale, PeerTube, Wordpress, etc.)
One of the bsky devs has clarified that they do want peertube/wordpress/lemmy type sites to exist on the protocol as well
You are correct, however I want to point out they have stated they want to hand over the governance of the protocol to a standards organization like the Internet Engineering Task Force:
Development of atproto to date has been driven by a single company, Bluesky PBC. Once the network opens to federation, protocol changes and improvements will still be necessary, but will impact multiple organizations, communities, and individuals, each with separate priorities and development interests. If the protocol is successful, there certainly will be disagreements and competitive tensions at play. Having a single company controlling the protocol will not work long-term.
The plan is to bring development and governance of the protocol itself to an established standards body around the time the network opens to federation. Our current hope is to bring this work to the IETF, likely as a new working group, which would probably be a multi-year process. If the IETF does not work out as a home, we will try again with other bodies. While existing work can be proposed exactly “as-is", it is common to have some evolution and breaking changes come out of the standardization processes.
Bin seit November auf Mastodon und seit Juli auf Bluesky und bin auch total erstaunt über den rasanten Zuwachs von deutschen Usern auf der letzteren Plattform. Muss sagen, für mich kommt das alles wie eine verpasste Chance für das Fediverse vor. Wenn man Anfang des Jahres besser aufgestellt wäre und das onboarding von Twitter-Usern besser geklappt hätte, hätte man sich den Bluesky-Spuk vielleicht sparen können.
Sich jetzt selbstgefällig auf die Schulter klopfen und sich sagen man sei auf der besseren Plattform und man müsse nur warten bis Bluesky auch implodiert, finde ich wenig hilfreich. Da werden stinknormale Bluesky-User als ahnungslose toxische clout sharks geschmäht, statt dass man sich nicht mal selbst an die Nase fasst und überlegt wie man Normalos das onboarding auf Mastodon hätte erleichtern können.
Aber manchmal kommt mir auch Rochkos Vision für Mastodon etwas zu rigide vor: wie lange man sich gegen Text-Suche gesträubt hat, ist da symptomatisch. Hoffe in Zukunft ist die Plattform attraktiver für alle Arten von User.
People who disparage Marty forget or don't know that he has been a fierce proponent and heavy financial supporter of film restoration through companies like Milestone Films for more than three decades now. If you ever enjoyed world cinema, the films of Kalatozov, Pasolini, Buñuel, Murnau and many more, there is a decent chance you were able to enjoy them in good quality through the direct efforts of Martin Scorsese and others.
“Because there are going to be generations now that think … that’s what movies are.”
should be understood in this context as well. We owe him so much gratitude for keeping the language of film alive.
Sure, I just meant if Threads and maybe Tumblr are serious about joining the Fediverse, maybe the whole AT Protocol that Bluesky is trying to build will fall into obscurity.
Perhaps I should clarify: by "good posters", I don't mean Wendy's epically dunking on McDonald's and I don't mean "night water hits different" lowest common denominator posters, just ordinary people like you and me shooting the shit. I think it's sad Mastodon seems to have the reputation that people can't crack a joke there.
That's fine, I just want either of them to actually kill twitter for good though and it just doesn't look like it's gonna be Mastodon. With Threads potentially joining the Fediverse, I guess who knows.