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Post by fredoliveira »

wannacboatmovie wrote: post #114
djur wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is hating Elon Musk irrational? Regardless of politics or business practices, his personal conduct is revolting.

Why do you care? You're not his friend or related to him. He is the CEO of a scaled text messaging app. Do you get upset if the CEO of your electric utility made stupid political statements? Or if the owner of a car dealership cheats on his wife? Tiger Woods slept with like fifty waitresses and masses of people were furious. Why? What did they expect his life as a star athlete was? People dislike Musk out of pure jea…

> People dislike Musk out of pure jealousy and try to rationalize it via other means.

I don't think this is true. Most people I hear express that they don't particularly like him, also attribute it to things that made me not like him. The rescuer story, the absurd trolling, the disparaging of specific individuals, the pretending to be for "freedom of speech" until the speech is about him.

This is a person I once thought had the desire and the means to push humanity forward. He's done so much, all of it tainted by, well, being absolutely unhinged.

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #129

Um... So all the money, all the development, to create Twitter² and they just added DMs? That seems an underwhelming achievement.

The headline is that it's not a shithole ridden with ads, spam, influencers, scams, etc. That's the important part of replacing Twitter.

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Post by jasonlotito »

TheBlight wrote: post #15
snapcaster wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel for them, because even if they (and weirdos like us on this site) value decentralization and other related values the average customer just DOES NOT CARE. They're trying to compete with other platforms without this handicap and very people people are willing to give them any "credit" for it

I thought the entire point of Bluesky was that it was to be decentralized? Did that change?

Yes. No.

Re: Bluesky adds direct messages

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Post by reustle »

codingclaws wrote: post #133

I am in the middle of implementing DMs. What are my options for making it e2e encrypted? I am using postgres if that matters.

I don't think this is the right place for that, but there are generally a bunch of libraries which will help you get this sorted out. If you tweet at me your tech stack and framework(s), I might be able to help you with more info. My details are in my bio.

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Post by nhumrich »

bbx wrote: post #103
shadowfacts wrote: post #7

Not only are they not end-to-end encrypted, Bluesky's DMs seem like they're entirely centralized. From their 2024 roadmap: > We looked closely at alternatives like linking to external services, re-using an existing protocol like Matrix, or rushing out on-protocol encrypted DMs, but ultimately decided to launch a basic centralized system to take the time pressure off our team and make our user community happy. https:/…

Probably a noob question but: why is E2E encryption hard to implement? It took WhatsApp a long time to implement as well. Is there a particular reason?

End to end encryption isn't hard. End to end encryption for non technical users who might forget their password, is hard.

The trouble isn't the encryption. It's, how do you make it feel seamless without having access to the private keys, and without asking the end user for their private key.

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