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Did social media made people unable to properly chat? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

why bother opening a pathway in the first place

i've never had an IG account myself, but i think your mistake is in assuming that someone accepting your follow request on a restricted IG account is an indicator of desire for chatting with strangers. accepting your follow request might just mean they glanced at your profile and assessed that you aren't a spammer or bot, not that they want to chat with you.

perhaps just need to find out somewhere in the real world where I could bond more easily with real people?

for sure that is a good idea 😂

but there are also many places online where it is much more reasonable to assume people are interested in chatting with strangers.

I've actually done this tho in c/leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Free Our Feeds: "it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app" in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In my opinion, yes, the why does in fact matter. This blog post i've linked in other comments in this thread is by one of the authors of the ActivityPub spec. If you care enough to comment about it i recommend reading her analysis of what AT Proto gets right and wrong in comparison with ActivityPub.

Free Our Feeds: "it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app" in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

but you have to question why they’re choosing to reinvent the wheel

you don't have to wonder why if you take the time to read about why; see the links in my other comments in this thread if you're curious.

Free Our Feeds: "it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app" in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Is there any instance other than Bluesky where people can register?

There aren't "instances" in the ActivityPub sense, where "instance" means single point of failure you're married to (its name is literally part of your identity) which is simultaneously responsible for keeping your data available and curating your view of the rest of the network; AT Protocol decomposes these responsibilities so that they can be delegated independently to different operators.

See https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-architecture and https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ for details.

There are many people running their own Personal Data Servers, AppViews, Labelers, and Feed Generators, but I'm not aware of anybody else running a large-scale Relay yet (which is one of the things this new foundation says they are planning to work on). I'm also not sure if you can actually create a did:plc using a self-hosted AppView or if maybe you need to use did:web to create a new identity without using their AppView currently.

Free Our Feeds: "it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app" in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

They mention ActivityPub in a few places, such as this blog post.

But I'd recommend https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ instead, which is the best discussion I've seen so far of the pros and cons of each of the two approaches.

Free Our Feeds: "it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app" in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (11 children)

have you read about why they didn't?

Free Our Feeds: "it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app" in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Free Our Feeds: "it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app" (freeourfeeds.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24751597

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24748390

screenshot of bluesky post with text: It’s time to reclaim social media. Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives. #FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative. Chip in today to make it happen. January 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/freeourfeeds.com/post/3lfmvqip7zk2v

tldr, it's a new foundation launching with an open letter signed by:

Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

Shoshana Zuboff, Professor Emerita, Harvard Business School and author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

Alex Winter, Actor and filmmaker

Audrey Tang, Former Minister of Digital Affairs, Taiwan

Roger McNamee, Businessman and author of ‘Zucked’

Brian Eno, Musician

Carole Cadwalladr, Investigative journalist

Cory Doctorow, Blogger and journalist

Akilah Hughes, Writer and comedian

Sebastian Soriano, Former Chairman, Arcep

Rosie Boycott, Member, UK House of Lords

Alexandra Geese, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA

...

Bluesky has expressed a clear interest in public governance of the protocol they have developed. We are establishing a Foundation to help steward this process, to ensure that the AT Protocol remains capture-resistant and is instead governed in line with a thriving public interest and open community.

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Free Our Feeds: "it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app" (freeourfeeds.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24748390

screenshot of bluesky post with text: It’s time to reclaim social media. Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives. #FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative. Chip in today to make it happen. January 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/freeourfeeds.com/post/3lfmvqip7zk2v

tldr, it's a new foundation launching with an open letter signed by:

Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

Shoshana Zuboff, Professor Emerita, Harvard Business School and author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

Alex Winter, Actor and filmmaker

Audrey Tang, Former Minister of Digital Affairs, Taiwan

Roger McNamee, Businessman and author of ‘Zucked’

Brian Eno, Musician

Carole Cadwalladr, Investigative journalist

Cory Doctorow, Blogger and journalist

Akilah Hughes, Writer and comedian

Sebastian Soriano, Former Chairman, Arcep

Rosie Boycott, Member, UK House of Lords

Alexandra Geese, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA

...

Bluesky has expressed a clear interest in public governance of the protocol they have developed. We are establishing a Foundation to help steward this process, to ensure that the AT Protocol remains capture-resistant and is instead governed in line with a thriving public interest and open community.

Is Lemmy becoming too ideologically homogeneous? Thoughts on political diversity in the Fediverse. in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

username checks out

What is the meaning of close source? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Having some distrust in Wikipedia is healthy; you certainly shouldn't take it as the final word about facts you're depending on the accuracy of. But, it is very often a good starting point for learning about a new subject.

Spending a minute or two reading that "source code" article (or another version of it which is likely available in your first language) would give you a much better understanding of the concept of source code (which is a prerequisite for understanding what "closed source" means) than any of the answers in this thread so far.

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Free Our Feeds: "it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app" (freeourfeeds.com)
 

screenshot of bluesky post with text: It’s time to reclaim social media. Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives. #FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative. Chip in today to make it happen. January 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/freeourfeeds.com/post/3lfmvqip7zk2v

tldr, it's a new foundation launching with an open letter signed by:

Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

Shoshana Zuboff, Professor Emerita, Harvard Business School and author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

Alex Winter, Actor and filmmaker

Audrey Tang, Former Minister of Digital Affairs, Taiwan

Roger McNamee, Businessman and author of ‘Zucked’

Brian Eno, Musician

Carole Cadwalladr, Investigative journalist

Cory Doctorow, Blogger and journalist

Akilah Hughes, Writer and comedian

Sebastian Soriano, Former Chairman, Arcep

Rosie Boycott, Member, UK House of Lords

Alexandra Geese, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA

...

Bluesky has expressed a clear interest in public governance of the protocol they have developed. We are establishing a Foundation to help steward this process, to ensure that the AT Protocol remains capture-resistant and is instead governed in line with a thriving public interest and open community.

What is the meaning of close source? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Is Lemmy becoming too ideologically homogeneous? Thoughts on political diversity in the Fediverse. in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

As a leftist myself (communist), I generally enjoy the content and discussions on Lemmy.

fry "not sure if" meme, with cropped versions of the Willem Dafoe "something of a scientist" and Steve Buscemi "fellow kids" memes in the top corners. (no text.)

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The Art of Crypto Kayfabe (by Brett Scott) (www.asomo.co)
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four years after adding it, curl/libcurl has removed its rust backend for HTTP/1: "with no user demand, why do it?" (daniel.haxx.se)
 

It seems quite clear that rust users use hyper but few of them want to work on making it work for a C project like curl, and among existing curl users there is virtually no interest in hyper. The overlap in the Venn diagram of the two universes is not big enough.

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WordPress.org's login page demands you pledge loyalty to pineapple pizza (mashable.com)
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Luigi Mangione ID'd as person of interest in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson killing (nypost.com)
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Common Locale Data Repository (en.wikipedia.org)
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List of countries and dependencies by area: [announcer voice] 3rd place is too close to call between 🏇USA and 🏇China, while 🏇Denmark comes up from 130th place to beat 🏇Saudi Arabia for 12th! 🎠 (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
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But the race isn't over! 🍿 This was the latest version of the article at the time of this post, which the title is describing.

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All three remaining US citizens classified by the State Department as wrongfully detained in China have been released, in exchange for the release of "at least one" Chinese citizen in US custody (www.bbc.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
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here is another report about it: https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3288409/3-americans-jailed-years-china-return-us

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How decentralized is Bluesky really? (dustycloud.org)
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Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, his wife, and the House of Representatives speaker, if she herself is killed (www.cbsnews.com)
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