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Bluesky is less attractive right now to Canadians who are participating in the boycott of US products. So Mastodon seems a better fit. There is even a collector page for Canadian Mastodon servers: * https://mastodonserver.ca/
Bluesky is less attractive right now to Canadians who are participating in the boycott of US products. So Mastodon seems a better fit. There is even a collector page for Canadian Mastodon servers: * https://mastodonserver.ca/
You mean the social network that keeps showing my wife dick pics even though she turned off adult content? That social network? Pass.
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The fundamental difference is that X is focussed on its "For You" feed while Bluesky focusses on "Following". They are similar tools, but the different approach means one is far closer to "self-promotion and PR" than the other, and I don't think it's inevitable that Bluesky will descend to X's depths.
The fundamental difference is in the public: extreme-left for bluesky, trumpist for truth social and twitter for whoever isn't making a platform choice part of its identity.
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We already have a wildly successful open protocol for communication, email. People also want the advantages of centralization.
Have you tried setting up and running an email server the past decade? Email is horribly centralized. Nostr is the way. It will take time but it's sufficiently decentralized. Doesn't require DNS. Users hold their own keys. Fairly easy to run a relay. It's also a trust network, with encryption out of the box, so I think it will become a usable successor for email+GPG.
> Email is horribly centralized
You’re seeing the downsides of decentralization not the result of centralization. There’s ~100’s of thousands of independently operated email servers, but nobody is directly forcing people to listen to everyone else. Instead they must stay reasonably open because the cloud didn’t win, work school and emails are still frequently independent.
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Can you prove to us that it is possible to interact with someone on Bluesky without being registered on Bluesky? Threads use e ActivityPub but we know it's bullshit and that they will shut down the network as soon as possible. Bluesky is the same shit. AT protocol is just a honey pot.
I did not use Bluesky a lot, and just set it up to try self-hosting. From what I know : - Right now you can self-host your PDS (Personal Data Server) that hosts your user account basically, and all of your user content (posts, images, etc...) - The easiest way to register is to use bluesky's frontend, and specifying your PDS address, I didn't try to self-host it too but I would assume if you self-host the bluesky web…
Bluesky is less attractive right now to Canadians who are participating in the boycott of US products. So Mastodon seems a better fit. There is even a collector page for Canadian Mastodon servers: * https://mastodonserver.ca/
How many people are boycotting these US products which specifically includes not using iPhones, Macs, Android and Windows devices?
Out of that, how many are going to bother to choose to sign up to a Mastodon instance that is only hosted in Canada and use it for more than a year? My guess is a very small number of people.
Realistically they don't care and the boycott won't last and the majority are still more likely to sign up to either Threads or BlueSky than to even consider Mastodon.
It makes for a bland circle jerk to be honest but they kind of succeeded at making also X worse as there's less balance to those racist tweets etc.
I tried not long ago, mostly help me get acquaintanced with the ruby ecosystem and news, but even using starter packs and the like the best I got was following devs that mostly talked about non tech stuff (personal life, politics and the like).
Particularly annoying was the constant "we hate twitter" posts (I know, I'm here now, so why are we talking about them?). Also tons of anti AI clickbait.