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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 08:15:55 JST Alex Gleason
   The identity thing that Bluesky is trying to solve is not actually a real problem. Admin is a jerk? Start your own server. There's no user friendly way to be fully distributed, it's one or the other. The missing pieces are 1) an alternative to traditional DNS, 2) a professional paid fedi hosting service. THAT solves the real problems with federation.
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     kroner (kroner@seal.cafe)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 08:17:10 JST kroner

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     It sounds like Bluesky is cringe and unbased
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 12:33:44 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Fediverse Contractor
     https://atproto.com/guides/identity
     
     CTRL+F "hosting service"
     
     It appears 9 times.
     
     Even in this solution that's supposedly better than Fedi, it relies heavily on the idea of hosting services. In fact it's required. Since every user has their own domain name, there's really no such thing as an "instance". It's a hosting service.
     
     So that made me think my idea from a year ago was actually good and probably ahead of its time. I'm slightly mad about it and a little burned out.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 12:33:45 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     How is a paid hosting service part of the solution?
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     ew (e@masochi.st)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 12:45:52 JST ew

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     • Fediverse Contractor
     @alex @bot >Even in this solution that's supposedly better than Fedi
     not relevant due to the networking effect. doesn't matter how technologically superior it is if there's no market or the creator doesn't produce an end-product (like pete)
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 12:47:07 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Are you talking about tribes? Why did you shut it down anyway?
     
     I actually really dislike that username system though, @alex@ gleasonator.com makes so much more sense than @alex.gleasonator.com. Well, maybe, I dunno.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 12:47:07 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Fediverse Contractor
     I pitched Tribes to two investors, both turned me down. So I took a break to get back into Soapbox, got halfway through developing Groups then I got the call for Truth Social. So I shut everything down and started working on that. I'm still in this phase, but realizing something more needs to happen.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 12:54:38 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     I don't actually know what tribes was about, I only heard about it recently. I do think instances make sense, because they're real communities with a coherent topic and identity. But otoh that does create division.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Saturday, 29-Oct-2022 03:57:16 JST Alex Gleason

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     • King Henry VIII
     I don't call the shots, but a recent development is that webfinger works again: https://truthsocial.com/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com
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     King Henry VIII (goodperson@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 29-Oct-2022 03:57:17 JST King Henry VIII

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     • Fediverse Contractor
     @alex @bot I'm sure you can't say but I'll ask anyway, is there any actual chance Truth is getting federated?