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Twitter users are BEGGING for invite-only code to Jack Dorsey's rival platform Bluesky - which now has 100,000 users (www.dailymail.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Problem: most people post using their phones, and actually hosting the content on their phones would murder battery life.

Edit: Also overrun data caps and anger cell phone companies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The battery life thing is actually a really good point, didn't think about that. Another step towards decentralisation would be using P2P mesh networking between individual phones instead of 4G for data, and I guess that might avoid centralised cell companies all together...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That has a seemingly intractable chicken-and-egg problem. It only works if everyone is using it, and everyone won't start using it until it starts working.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's true. Pipe dream I guess