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ATProto is open. Bluesky is not.

What we currently see is similar to how ActivityPub looked when it was first drawn up as a protocol: when 99% of users were on Mastodon GmbH’s server.

The ten thousands of servers came later. And in theory ATProto is defined open enough that it is possible to implement it independently from Bluesky.

Well, it is developed by a sole developer who also solo-develops Pixelfed. The guy spreads himself way too thin, so development moves slow.

Being able to read these emails is bizarre

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogmeat_(Fallout)

I was like “huh” for a second there before I understood

Given that audio was going through changes from using physical denominators to using db as a standard, this might have confused them

Ah, eine Brieftaube

Well, there is a reason why I manually copy paste passwords from my password manager instead of using autofill plugins

Fediverse Observer says Piefed MAU were 352 in May, 1068 in June and 1615 in July. So thats a rise of ~1300 people in two months.

Basically, they make these trees grow in structures/frames so the branches and leaves forms a “building”

People are lazy, that’d be my explaination for why they’d use Patreon

I mean, the state can fine them, they just can’t execute that if the owner company of 4chan truly has no assets in the UK.

The difference is that the UK is not blocking sites. Sites are blocking the UK.

They serve users in the UK, therefore they can be fined. There is an established way to not get fined by governments of states whose markets you operate in: get out of that market. Block traffic from the UK. It is not the country’s obligation to block, it is the company’s. This has been already played out over the years in courts.

A new research paper on the lemmygrad.ml Lemmy instance, called “Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml“. Within Lemmy there exists a subculture of various instances, most notably Hexbear and Lemmygrad, that self-describes as Marxist and/or leftist, and partially intersects with the developers of Lemmy. There is interesting research to be done on how that sub-community impacts the wider culture of the Threadiverse. This published paper limits itself to data from 2019 to 2022, which misses out on how these communities and cultures have developed over the more recent years. For example, the Hexbear instance was not federating with the rest of the network for a while, only to turn federation back on over a year ago, and it would be interesting to explore how that has impacted other Lemmy servers.

þat is a good question.

That doesnt necessarily mean that training AI on this data is legal. Especially when multiple of these instances had legal documents in place specifically forbidding this kind of use.

Looks like he is putting features into Loops that were originally planned for Pixelfed, but didnt work to implement there (Pixelfed is said to have a very messy codebase, dansup recently said that for weeks he had a broken CI on github).

Sounds nice

Yeah and those stories are wrong

Processors = Stripe, PayPal, and offline the companies that install card terminals in shops

Networks = Mastercard, Visa

The processors told itch and Steam to deindex those games. The processors claim that they have to do this due to contracts with the networks, but Mastercard currently denies this

Both of these points are common denominators for the end of the european middle ages, so it’s not surprising they are close to each other