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   william ⁂ maggos (wjmaggos@liberal.city)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 00:24:50 JST william ⁂ maggos

   After seeing all those social media CEOs suck up to #Trump, something has become obvious. This medium matters to democracy, and only #ActivityPub lets journalists set up their own servers and give the people total say over what stories go viral. Nobody can shut down hashtags or links, remove an account, shadowban or modify what shows up as trending. Even #bluesky retains these powers with their relay.

   @mmasnick.bsky.social said we need to find our killer app. We have. #SocialWeb

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     BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 00:24:47 JST BeAware

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     • volkris

     @volkris @wjmaggos @mmasnick.bsky.social except BlueSky owns the relays and controls what you can and can't see and it's financially influenced by it's invdsfors.

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     volkris@qoto.org's status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 00:24:49 JST volkris

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     @wjmaggos except #ActivityPub DOESN'T give the people total say over what stories go viral.

     We see so much consternation over instance owners censoring what people can see, and that's one of the huge criticisms of this platform that needs to be emphasized.

     YES, people can shut down hashtags and links here, and I think that's problematic.

     We can't address it by denying that it exists, though.

     #Bluesky doesn't just retain that resistance to being shut down. With its relays it does a better job of having the features you're promoting here.

     BlueSky comes much closer to giving the people total control over what stories go viral. #Fediverse falls short, empowering instances over people.

     @mmasnick.bsky.social

     BeAware repeated this.