So odd that a pseudo-decentralized centralized company gets so much attention when Nostr is actually decentralized but never gets mentioned.
I think most people wouldn’t care plus most who know wouldn’t make the mistake of trusting jack again.
Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
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#122On the topic of Bluesky stats, I just learned that blocks are effectively public via the API, so there's a hall of shame ranking the most blocked users on the site: https://vqv.app/blocks.html
Top 100 BlueSky accounts Hall of fame https://www.graphtracks.com/1h
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#123Does anyone know any good makers I can follow on there? I'm mostly interested in making stuff, less in monetizing stuff, so I don't want to follow so much entrepreneurs (ie people who like making stuff to make money) as makers (ie people who like making stuff for its own sake). Any good lists? If anyone wants to follow me on there, I'm @stavros.io.
I have a Ruby hackers starter pack at https://bsky.app/starter-pack/bradgessler.com/3laa47lbuwb2r — Edit: replaced cable modem link with starter pack link
This looks like a really nice modem, but I have fiber :(
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#124Highly recommend folks check out Mastodon as well - fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control. It is continuing to grow steadily and has tons of activity compared to a few years ago. https://joinmastodon.org/
Federated and no control just means it’s going to be overrun by trolls at some point?
No corporate control. Server admin block nodes they don't want to see, so it is important to join a server with similar views as your own, or run your own server.
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#125Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#126Highly recommend folks check out Mastodon as well - fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control. It is continuing to grow steadily and has tons of activity compared to a few years ago. https://joinmastodon.org/
I wonder how the world would change if ads just disappeared
I get things have to be sold but damn it's out of control
Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#127As someone who never used Twitter, I made a Bluesy account and it was okay. I learned that I have no idea how to engage with that style of social media. One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that.
People talk about what’s on their minds. Most of the users just moved in the past week or two so that’s the hot topic. But it’ll change soon enough.
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#128Zuck dropped the ball bad.
By building a service that went from 0 to 275 million active users in a year (compared to Bluesky's 18 million)?
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because there was a certain geopolitical event about two weeks ago that was a primary reason many still used Twitter/X and now that said event is over (and whose outcome will likely cause Twitter/X to further degrade) there is no reason to stay. The exodus is not happening randomly or in a vacuum.
This plus the fact that starting Nov 15 tweets become by default training material for their language models: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-y...
All posts on bsky are public and subject to use for training machine learning models. So a lot of people either don't care or are going to be very disappointed.