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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 16:44:21 JST Rich Felker

   I'm here 🤷 with the "BlueSky has won and fedi lost" narratives. Sure it's a little disappointing to see folks flocking to another VC clowncar, but we'll still be here when their next house burns down. In the meantime we'll probably have them increasingly well bridged so the next migration isn't even that painful.

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     shellhazard (shellhazard@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 18:59:27 JST shellhazard

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     @dalias Even if you're an AP deadender, this is objectively a positive step forward - in no small part because as you mentioned, it's a lot easier to bridge from (and to) Bluesky by design.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 20:24:57 JST Rich Felker

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     • acb

     @acb Yeah, uh, that's what the clueless pundits keep predicting and somehow it never happens.

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     acb (acb@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 20:24:58 JST acb

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     @dalias Unless traffic in the fediverse drops off completely due to everyone flocking to the hot new engagement-pump casino, to the point where servers start shutting down due to lack of interest and funding.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 20:33:03 JST Rich Felker

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     • acb

     @acb Again, this kind of prediction keeps being made and it doesn't happen. Because the people making it fundamentally don't understand the motives or values of the people involved, or the capacity to migrate.

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     acb (acb@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 20:33:04 JST acb

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     @dalias Though servers keep sunsetting all the time (botsin.space being a recent case). If traffic drops off, more admins of small servers might decide that they could divert their time and resources to something more useful, and larger servers that rely on donations may shut down due to lack of funding.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 14:29:03 JST Rich Felker

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     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

     @vfrmedia @acb This is fixable. When fetching federated image content, recompress to lowest possible quality & let users load original instance copy if they want the full gigantic image.

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     Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 14:29:04 JST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     • acb

     @dalias @acb it seems most of the time when a larger Fedi server shuts down, its not due to lack of interest - quite the opposite (usually the cost of keeping the server running and the work involved for the admin/security is too much). Fedi is quite resource intensive (particularly due to the constant demands for graphics heavy content, fairly high resolution pictures/videos)