From my brief lecture of the underlying protocol, public instances could exist and federate, it’s only that they become quite expensive to run if done right.
I’m not even going to pretend that BlueSky is more open than any Fediverse tool designed with federation in mind from the ground up. BlueSky is certainly not Mastodon or Lemmy, but it’s not Meta AI-pushing crap like WhatsApp either.
Let’s do a thought experiment. What if we would get a Wikipedia like NGO with proper funding setting up a EU based BlueSky instance? It won’t be the decentralized dream of Fediverse, perhaps, but it could still prove useful. I think Twitter was successful because of its unified, global reaching platform appeal, not in spite of it, and the fact that users flock to BlueSky tells me that appeal is still there. Having a bit more decentralization in that mix just makes it better, but Mastodon shows that decentralization is not sufficient to give a platform a wide appeal.
As context: I’m one of those people that donates annually to Wikipedia, but I have no interest or capacity in managing a decentralized federation server in my basement. Lots of kudos to the people that do!
Ah, the “don’t be evil days”. I’m old enough to remember Jabber was a thing. We really took a hard right at some point, didn’t we? Technologically speaking, I’m not getting political.
And don’t get me wrong, I’m not a BlueSky fanboy either. Their implementation of DMs simply sucks from an open standards POV. I just think they deserve a bit more credit than Zuckersoft. A lot of people I admire are active over there, reason enough for me to stick around. But I’m not giving up on Lemmy either.
It makes sense that they would go where the users are.
But not having a separate, European instance federated into the BlueSky network, that’s the real wtf.
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Surely that’s a bit unfair to BlueSky.
From my brief lecture of the underlying protocol, public instances could exist and federate, it’s only that they become quite expensive to run if done right.
https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web
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I’m not even going to pretend that BlueSky is more open than any Fediverse tool designed with federation in mind from the ground up. BlueSky is certainly not Mastodon or Lemmy, but it’s not Meta AI-pushing crap like WhatsApp either.
Let’s do a thought experiment. What if we would get a Wikipedia like NGO with proper funding setting up a EU based BlueSky instance? It won’t be the decentralized dream of Fediverse, perhaps, but it could still prove useful. I think Twitter was successful because of its unified, global reaching platform appeal, not in spite of it, and the fact that users flock to BlueSky tells me that appeal is still there. Having a bit more decentralization in that mix just makes it better, but Mastodon shows that decentralization is not sufficient to give a platform a wide appeal.
As context: I’m one of those people that donates annually to Wikipedia, but I have no interest or capacity in managing a decentralized federation server in my basement. Lots of kudos to the people that do!
I think what we are missing is some sort of “unify onboarding portal”
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Ah, the “don’t be evil days”. I’m old enough to remember Jabber was a thing. We really took a hard right at some point, didn’t we? Technologically speaking, I’m not getting political.
And don’t get me wrong, I’m not a BlueSky fanboy either. Their implementation of DMs simply sucks from an open standards POV. I just think they deserve a bit more credit than Zuckersoft. A lot of people I admire are active over there, reason enough for me to stick around. But I’m not giving up on Lemmy either.
Just fyi, you need to use two tildes to for strikethrough. With only one tilde you get subscript.
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