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The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet (www.404media.co)
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[–] [email protected] 140 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I like Jason but he completely missed the boat on this one.

The active migration away from social media networks that are owned, controlled by, and distorted by the richest men and most powerful companies in the world to a decentralized platform that is not owned and controlled by billionaires is one of the more hopeful things to happen in what has largely been a bleak year for the human internet as AI slop infects everything and billionaires put their thumbs on the scale of what we see on social media.

He says this and yet jumps to Bluesky, a platform created by Jack Dorsey and now owned and managed by a crypto bro? You don't need powers of prophecy to see where Bluesky is headed.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly I don't know what's up with the mass delusion about Bluesky being oligarch-free. It's understandable that most don't know or haven't looked into it, but then some folks that should know better are displaying the same ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

He says this and yet jumps to Bluesky, a platform created by Jack Dorsey and now owned and managed by a crypto bro?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whether it soon becomes possible to self host an AppView, the one remaining centralized component will tell us a lot about where it's headed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There are already smaller appviews that use the existing hosting/authentication infra, but bypassing the bsky appview aggregation. Nothing with any real scale but for example there is a barebones reddit/hackernews equivalent https://frontpage.fyi/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's interesting. This post had suggested it isn't yet possible to host an AppView. It seems the reality is more complex.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That post refers to hosting an appview that does all the same things as the official bsky (the service) one, which involves a ton of storage and bandwidth and processing (for everyone's recommendations, notifications, and all the other moving parts), and is closed source to boot.

Frontpage.fyi is a lot cheaper simply because its used by like 50 people tops.

[–] can 6 points 2 weeks ago

At least maybe some more regular people will learn about decentralization (and alternative ways there) from this mass adoption?