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Twitter's Traffic Falling Relative to Bluesky (futurism.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Who cares...it's just changing one shitpile for the next soon-to-be shitpile. Bluesky will inevitably go down the shitter too once its users have enough inertia to keep them there as they squeeze them dry.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Bluesky is at least semi-decentralized, however, though not to the same extent as something like Mastodon

I'd also argue that Twitter is also uniquely bad even among other problematic platforms

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bluesky is at least semi-decentralized

No it isn't, this is marketing and until the developers actually put their money where their mouth is and provide the genuine capacity for decentralization (not just along some narrow technical definition but actually decentralized in practice) this is pure marketing hype that you absolutely shouldn't trust until you are given indisputable proof and then you should still be skeptical because they can always pull the rug out from under you.

Bluesky is open source yes, but what they are talking about is the CLIENT side of Bluesky, the actual system is dependent upon proprietary code that is most definitely not open source.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's actually more so the other way around. The backend (PDS and relays) is open source but I believe the AppView is not currently open source

https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo

https://github.com/bluesky-social/jetstream

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yep, and for anyone who curious why it's not actually decentralized, I highly suggest to read this thread from someone who worked on ActivityPub:

https://social.coop/@cwebber/113527462572885698

And part 2:

https://social.coop/@cwebber/113647109852249805

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If nothing else I will personally find it very funny if Elon Musk spent $44,000,000,000 on something and then unintentionally destroyed it in just three years

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Saudis footed the bill for most of that $44bn - most is only out of pocket about $10bn of it iirc.

Fwiw he didn't actually intend to buy it, he was shitposting and got nailed by the SEC, only THEN did he try to work out what to do with it.

Unfortunately the "what" turned out to be destroying democracy and helping Trump turn the US into a feudal state

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

The Saudis footed the bill for most of that $44bn - most is only out of pocket about $10bn of it iirc.

I mean they definitely got their money's worth in terms of torpedoing one of the most threatening social media tools for politically destabilizing authoritarian regimes.