Please look at the big picture here. The Fediverse exists only because of a very niche user base that are technologically exposed to it.

The general public HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE that the Fediverse exists.

Therefore, it would take either an enormous amount of incredibly generous people to market/advertise the Fediverse OR a fuck-ton of money to pay people to market/advertise the Fediverse.

more people need to self-host, or at the very least we need more mon-and-pop style datacenters.

most would rather offload hardware costs and, more importantly, security, to those more knowledgeable.

running one’s own hardware is extremely time intensive, nevermind power and equipment costs

These three points that you’ve made are NOT accurate. I could go into great detail as to why this is but I won’t waste our time nor embarrass you.

The problem, unfortunately, always comes down to money.

This isn’t a technological problem.

All of the popular widely used corporate platforms gain more users because they have the money in which to market/advertise themselves.

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Yeah. This is good. E.g. an account claims to be a NYTimes journo, it can then be verified by the NYTimes account. Or an account claims to be an NBA player, that gets verified by the NBA / team account. And each of those verifications will show who granted it.

Contrary to the predictable FUD in this thread, it decentralizes control. Makes it meritocratic - i.e. you earn the privilege to issue verification by proving to be a known and credible source.

As stated by @furrowsofar@beehaw.org Firefox or a derivative. I use Firefox Developer Edition and have learned how to turn off all of the spying crap. Otherwise, I’ll use LibreWolf every once in a while.

Last Epoch and Diablo 4

Getting ready for the new content

Yeah. Clickbait title.

We must have better moderation tools if we ever want this instance to grow.

I understand all of that. What I’d like the OP to address is how Bluesky could turn into something resembling Twitter if it’s, technically, very different.

Did you read the article? Do you understand, technically, how Bluesky differs from Twitter (X)?

Yes. This is the best explanation of why people choose the platforms they use.

I don’t believe it has anything to do with people’s fear. More money means more marketing power. It’s that simple.

Yeah I agree.

In the four years that I’ve been an admin here I’ve only seen one CSAM case. I don’t want to see another one. It was very difficult dealing with it on a personal level.

The last sentence of the article clears this up.

That will mean users putting in the work to make sure they remain safe, accessible, noncommercial and well respected.

I agree. That was one of the main sites I used to determine buying the Sony Bravia. Turns out they were spot on about everything. I’ll use that site again I’m sure.

They may never release the truth surrounding her death.

I never have this problem using uBlock Origin.

Thanks for sharing that article. ATproto and ActivityPub are very different indeed. I can understand why someone would be hesitant to join if they preferred the way ActivityPub is structured.

Why?