Alternative Title: “Bluesky pretty sure these leopards won’t eat their face.”
Oh, there goes that neighborhood.
saw this comin a mile away. does it count as federation if you only federate with yourself?
From what I understand, bsky’s architecture seems to allow federation at multiple levels. On one side the individual profiles are actually websites and the app aggregates the content almost as an RSS reader. I do see some profiles which are independent like Jeff Gierling’s, so yes federation at the profile level seems to work.
And this is really important because it is one way to prevent your data from being hostage by the service. Then there is another level of federation. I’m not entirely sure of the terminology here, but there is one aggregator aspect, which is quite compute intensive. And that one I don’t know if there is another instance of it. But functionally speaking, I’m quite impressed by the technical aspect of bsky. There has been a lot of thought put into it.
And monetizing it is not the issue, the problem is mostly how. That they have some paid features is fine, it’s even important that there are ways to monetize it without milking their users of their privacy.
Let’s hope this works out and becomes sustainable while respecting the users!
I’m way less worried about bluesky as opposed to threads. If anything, it serves as a healthy competitor to mastodon in terms of how it would require a bridge to interact. You have to go out of your way to make it happen.
But threads is pulling a EEE, and it’s obvious that’s the goal.
If they actually had legitimate interest in the fediverse they would be working towards making Instagram interoperable. But of course their established platforms aren’t necessary for EEE.
Alternative Title: “Bluesky happy to use the standard playbook so long as there’s still bozos willing to contribute free labor for their profit.”
TFTFY
The enshitification will be in full swing soon.
BlueSky is still a private corporation.
which means what exactly here?
That it started out enshittified, and things can only get worse with VC being involved deeper.
Well, I dunno if that’s what they meant, but that sure as heck is the reality of it
thank you!
Full swing is a stock company, where companies are required by law to seek short-term gain instead of long-term.
Thank u daddy 🤡
I dont see the issue here. Series A investment is normal. I am glad to have a federated alternative to twitter. I know people here hate it but federation is just way more comfortable to use.
This bridge is trying to get Mastodon and BlueSky to exchange information… https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-are-having-a-fight-that-could-shape-the-next-generation-of-social-media/
…what’s wrong with that?
we here are bluesky are thrilled to accept Series A funding for Face-Eating Leopards, Inc. despite this we ensure that Leopards will not eat your face
*some nibbling might happen, though