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   A (a@91268476.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 02:50:03 JST A

   • Cory Doctorow

   Hi @pluralistic@mamot.fr may I ask what do you see as a benefit of https://freeourfeeds.com/ over, say, activity pub?

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 02:49:52 JST Cory Doctorow

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     @a There are 18m people trapped on Bluesky by the collective action problem and Bluesky's ongoing foot-dragging on federation. Raising money to create federated servers for BS lets those users escape should Bluesky's management turn sour, and also puts BS's investors on notice that if they order management to enshittify the service, they'll hemorrhage users.

     https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/29/how-to-leave-dying-social-media-platforms/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 03:36:31 JST Cory Doctorow

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     @a No, that's a parallel solution. I don't cherish Mastodon because I like the protocol design. I like it because it's federated. I honestly don't care what service people use so long as they're federated and can't be trapped by bad server managment.

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     A (a@91268476.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 03:36:33 JST A

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @pluralistic@mamot.fr wouldn't better bridging between activitypub and BS be a better solution ?