NotesI think Bluesky is doing about as good a job as a group of people can do with the design they have and are trying to preserve. But I don't think the global context-collapse firehose works, and I'm not sure it's what users want it either, and if they do, they really seem to want both strong central control to meet their needs but also to not have strong central control be a thing that exists when it doesn't.FeedUnfurl
NotesSo what's it like to set up your own GotoSocial server? Well, I can walk you thru what I used for my setup. Yours might be different; that's OK! I made these up-front choices to simplify the operational overhead because I didn't want this to be a hassle and I don't need the extra engineering that comes from trying for nine nines of uptime:
NotesBluesky is built by good people who care, and it is providing something that people desperately want and need. If you are looking for a Twitter replacement, you can find it in Bluesky today.
However, I stand by my assertions that Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralized and that it is certainly not federated according to any technical definition of federation we have had in a decentralized social network context previously. To claim that Bluesky is decentralized or federated in its current form moves the goalposts of both of those terms, which I find unacceptable.
However, "credible exit" is a reasonable term to describe what Bluesky is aiming for. It is Bluesky's term, and I think Bluesky should embrace that term fully in all contexts and work that they can.FeedUnfurl
Notes If theyâre motivated, tooled up, and plugged into communities of support fediverse server teams can provide context-sensitive, high-touch local moderation for their membersâwhile also connecting to a broad landscape of other well-governed servers. But can new fediverse members find them? FeedUnfurl
NotesThe reason I think these problems are worth solving is because one of most valuable gifts of the fediverse as it currently exists is the ability to experience the fediverse from within a home server that is good for youâthat cares about your experience, that moderates (locally and remotely) in ways that meet your needs and protect you from the things you actually want protection from, that is built to last.FeedUnfurl
NotesSimply hop on Xibalba BBS and let me (NuSkooler) know youâd like to join in. Youâll get an @YourName@Xibalba.l33t.codes Fediverse address with the ability to both post and read public and private messages.FeedUnfurl
NotesThe tech industry is abuzz about a new standard for social networking that is more open, more user-centric, and potentially more powerful than Twitter and Facebook. But weâve been here before.FeedUnfurl
NotesIt occurred to me today that ActivityPub is the new, modern FidoNet(-style) networking. Sure you have W3C publishing official specifications, but what you mostly have is every day âhackersâ putting the protocol to work building decentralized communications. Anyway, the specifications are quote vague at best, which in this case, Iâm going to consider a feature. In other words, a lot like FidoNet. FeedUnfurl
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