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   John Abbe (aka Slow) (slowenough@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 07:38:40 JST John Abbe (aka Slow)

   • David G. Smith
   • anderbill

   @iDGS @band It's all still in one service, right? They have a theory, but no practice.

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     anderbill (band@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 07:44:46 JST anderbill

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     • David G. Smith

     @slowenough @iDGS John, yes, i think bsky is a single service, but i am confused about what theory and practice you are referring to. can you say a bit more about that? thx

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     John Abbe (aka Slow) (slowenough@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 08:43:15 JST John Abbe (aka Slow)

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     • David G. Smith
     • anderbill

     @band @iDGS Threads not being it is a gimme, that's just Facebook leveraging their Instagram product to stay in the game.

     Bluesky is a B Corporation but that's a minor differentiator. They are a for-profit, so it would be nice to know who the main investors were/are. Seeing Mike Masnick's name there makes me more curious.

     Is the code open source? I guess that's not too important since it's an open spec, but it would make starting other servers easier. https://bsky.social/about/faq 1/2

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     John Abbe (aka Slow) (slowenough@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 08:43:15 JST John Abbe (aka Slow)

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     • David G. Smith
     • anderbill

     @band @iDGS
     If I understand correctly, Bluesky uses a protocol which could interoperate across services. Hence in theory it is distributed, but in practice not so much. Sounds like the design so far is for only one global conversation, period, so you can't have different spaces with different moderation rules &/or moderators on different.

     The FAQ said, "tooling for independent moderation services is coming soon." So I guess we'll find out more then.

     Curious how the algorithms bit works.

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     anderbill (band@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 08:43:15 JST anderbill

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     • David G. Smith

     @slowenough @iDGS thanks. good points. i am more interested in how separate silos might connect with each other.