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there's no requirement to get your own domain name. when you sign up you automatically get a yourname.bsky.social domain.

Nope. You own your keys, and you can switch to a different server instantly while retaining both your username and your followers. They can't impersonate you because they don't hav…

The posts and likes are all public. Some servers can charge users, and will likely have more resources to improve their offerings that way.

Nope, AT Protocol is not compatible with ActivityPub.

Yes, another reason to move away. Although Elon has also stated that he's tasked Twitter engineers with working on implementing E2E encrypted DMs.

I don't expect it to stay closed source. But there are significant differences to Mastodon. Just to give one example: Mastodon server admins actually can read your private messages…

OP here. I don't expect these servers to become unmoderated. I think a lot of them will moderate as strictly or stricter than Twitter currently is.

Author here. You get to have all the moderation, filtering, etc. that is implemented on the servers you use. I'm sure there will be servers that very closely try to approximate wha…

Do you have an actual critique of replacing centralized companies with decentralized protocols?

People still need transportation.

where's the problem for the consumer?

It's worth pointing out that YC startup foreverlabs.com does freeze your stem cells for precisely that reason.

Ok translation: Ivermectin, a safe and well-tolerated bacteria-derived insecticide already used in humans, can kill mosquitoes. By feeding humans ivermectin, mosquito populations c…

take a daily herpes antiviral https://www.healthline.com/health-news/evidence-of-link-betw... and reduce your alzheimer's risk by 90%

We are off petroleum from Saudi Arabia. The US now is a net petrol exporter thanks to fracking. We have the cheapest oil in the world.

here's an alpha invite code: https://october.app/qr/TQSRG

We are actively developing https://october.app/ right now - check us out and give us feedback!

Gravity

self driving cars and uberbuses

guess it's time to disable flash for a few weeks...

From memory, but maybe a slight overstatement: http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/article01036.html 70 per cent of protein-coding human genes are related to genes found in the zebraf…

yeah agreed. i considered writing proto-prokaryotes.

Which is interesting considering we share about 85% of our genome with Zebra Fish.