“Built on AT protocol, centralized on BlueSky”. No thanks.

Good one, got a chuckle out of me :)

If we think Elon, Gates and Bezos are far-right, exploiting, scum billionaires, then Thiel is about 715 Texas sized football fields to the right of them politically. Dude is and has always been insane.

They’re still running on VC money so it’ll be a while. My guess: ads, selling user data, AI training on user behaviours, limiting what content is suitable (getting rid of NSFW), promoting corporate brands (so algorithmic advertising) and adding crypto in one way or another. And all the other tricks that older platforms have been doing.

And probably burying the thought of distributed protocol, hoping people will stop talking about it.

should work as cross-indexing domain-specific, configuration-specific video galleries

Yes indeed - this is great idea and probably the only way a “web scale” distributed video service can work - unfortunately this doesn’t quite exist yet. Even mature implementations like Mastodon have hard time dealing with “global” free text searching (or any kind of taxonomy). But maybe that’s the idea that starts a truly free web!

I doubt it. Bandwidth and storage costs for distributed video on the scale of YouTube isn’t going to happen without some kind of monetisation beyond stray donations.

Places like Nebula have better operating models but they’re also very niche.

Bsky is just another VC financed grift though.

Same techbro hegemony as Meta’s “Facebook AI Friends” they are trying to roll out.

The EU should slap the living daylights out of this company

ChatGPT in its PhD thesis defense: “Oh, I’m sorry for the misinformation, let me try this again…”

He should probably read what the Stop Killing Games campaign is trying to establish before responding. But he probably “has people for that”. And it shows.

Use Ente photos

Right after this message from our sponsors!

Brave has a good marketing team.

And then the game wouldn’t work.

It doesn’t have to be open source. There’s plenty of binary firmware and drivers around.

Yeah. On Twitter as well

Sure. Just saying this is federated and you don’t really control where this post ends up.

Uh, there are plenty of Nazis and tankies on fedi. Chances are you’re using software written by hardcore tankies (Lemmy devs). Not everyone is “in the know”. They just follow their brands and influencers. And most don’t really care, they don’t engage too much, just retweet and like the latest football results or whatever the outrage algo puts in their feed. Most people don’t think deep thoughts about their social media platform.

this is potentially the last social identity you have to create.

…as long as you stay centralized on the central BlueSky instance. Once you move out to a (potential, future) federated server, that identity (and it’s super duper verification) doesn’t follow you.