So let me see if I've got this straight about Bluesky:

Anyone can host their own domain, and their identity on that domain. But the Bluesky org controls the "app view" and also the "bsky.app" domain through which all links to Bluesky content are referenced.

:blobcatthinkingsmirk: :blobthinkingcool:

But.... "you control your identity". Except Bluesky corp can cut it off from the rest of the Internet because web sites must reference the content via 'bsky.app' URLs. So your identity is really '@bsky.app' no matter what screen name says.

:blobcatthinkingsmirk: :blobthinkingcool:

I must be missing something. Please someone explain it to me like I'm in grade school...
#bluesky #bsky #decentralization #techbros

@tchambers Yep, this is all we have, but only about 1M people worldwide can stomach fedi's shortcomings. Almost all of us are some type of Linux/FOSS enthusiast which ought to be a gigantic red flag that something is fundamentally wrong with UX – things I've complained about but no one with any ActivityPub expertise has acknowledged.

TL;dr We are fucked.

@rrb @Gargron Any instance with a conscience would defederate #Threads

@shalien @ErikUden @Gargron Fedi is still too rough around the edges.

For one, people start to gain traction and then it flops because why? Ans: Popular posts become super annoying, recurring in TL dozens or hundreds of times per day..... so people react by muting those users and conversations.

Little if any chance you'll see replies (to other users' threads) from people you follow show up in your TL. Great candidate for a simple "algorithm"; as it stands its just poor engagement.

Picture-only posts where most people can't view the thread, because the only place to click on such posts is a 1px tall line about 3px under the poster's avatar.

Its very sad. Years back I donated money to Mastodon, but there are still UX holes you can drive a truck through and nothing is done about it. UX isn't taken seriously here, so its mainly techies that stick around.

@Infoseepage @appleinsider Tim Cook is in the "coming out of the closet after making Billion$" club. He probably feels he's got more in common with Peter Thiel than any of us.

@rysiek Who is Starlabs? Never heard of them.

@pushcx Also, is the page content being uploaded to Google so they can decide what/where to inject? That is a potential spyware issue.

@vaurora @phire Going by the tone of the article, I would argue that all the apps they feel are necessary aren't actually enhancing that person's life.

Many people still feel like they did in the 2010s, that incorporating an app/service into their life is an act of personal agency and freedom so they habituate to using more and more. But they are learning its actually the opposite of freedom.

In this case, the extent of the damage appears to be that no one is stepping in to offer a clean migration path to a different server. And there is no big-bucks foundation offering to maintain a stable fork.

Rejecting the idea of enshittification, though... that sounds like rejecting a radical perspective. The term appears to the author to stop the conversation, when its really recognizing the underlying societal malady. (And how is calling it "modernity" any better?) If you don't want to talk about SV oligarchy and such, and want technical solutions instead then the conversation is about finding a data store that never goes away (maybe something Velid is what you need).

@jerry @Gargron Honestly, how am I supposed to expand this collapsed post without activating the link to another website?

(This is using /deck mode)

I was curious to see the post, but I don't open random links like this. This seems like a security issue.

@fsf Apple's response to this (from which they indirectly profit) was nothing. No comment...
https://www.404media.co/inside-global-phone-spy-tool-patternz-nuviad-real-time-bidding/

@phiofx Linux is a synecdoche that only techies understand. It can't succeed as a consumer product.

Build a reasonably complete stack on top of the Linux kernel, to the point where apps don't rely much on kernel specifics, and give it a decent default UI. Finally, don't ever refer to it as "Linux". Voila, you'll have something that might evolve into an Android competitor.

@tchambers @rwg A huge problem with not "pre-emptively" defederating is that the federating sites then set a double standard for compliance with the covenant. And that will be resented and fought.

And what we will have in effect is the fediverse flipping its covenant in order to partake in Meta's pattern of attacking marginalized groups. You will be complicit.

@nf3xn @andthisismrspeacock This is a strange way to frame a company like Meta/Facebook. They have a long history and people came here specifically so they could exit the sphere of corporate influence. Trying to sneak it back into our online lives is a threat.

If they have a history, then there is no reason why entities cannot be ethically blocked before they join.

@evacide EFF should be advising their followers to step out of the box that makes them the product. "Harm reduction" my ass.

I am no longer a follower, or a paying member. What I'm seeing lately is both moral and technical decline.

PS - Its hard to see an impact from EFF's fractional "harm reduction" when Google just shoved Chrome users into a new surveillance mode because too many were opting out of the old mode with blockers like uBlock Origin. If your workaround becomes popular, then #Google will react again with yet another scheme. That math won't add up. It is not reasonable to assume that Google is anything less than hostile to privacy at this point, but the EFF's behavior has been mollifying. #chrome

Doubtless your defenders here would dismiss all of this as some kind of FOSS purist pedantry, but it should concern you that their excuses sound like the old Internet Explorer hype of yore. With followers like that, something has gone wrong.

@tomw Worse... the Substack CEO is a longtime Musk associate (and fan).

Be very skeptical of any 'drama' you see between these companies.

@brouhaha @paul_ipv6

This is what I thought when someone recently berated me for wanting NAT beyond IPv4: "OK, here are all my IPv6 devices and they are not doing privacy extensions... its up to me to make that happen??"

I even thought it might be just a Network Manager thing, but then I looked at non-Linux devices and they were single-address IPv6 as well.

The IPv6 privacy extensions were an afterthought that came over a decade later. Here is what The Internet Society says:

"When IPv6 was conceived in the mid-90s the Internet wasn't composed of so many mobile devices like it is today. Also, the combination of the words 'privacy' and 'computer' weren't as salient nor contentious as they are today."

Yeesh. The Internet was conceived as being resilient to hostile attacks. But they seem to be saying here that the effusive 90s mindset made them naive. We could re-name IPv6 "Internet Vista" and tell everyone we're waiting for the upgrade to "Internet 7".