old, stupid
ive been asking about this for a long time. ive yet to be presented with a non-bluesky controlled relay instance. this is a lynch-pin of the protocol and prevents true federation.
happy to be proven wrong someday, but bluesky is just twitter with user-contolled nodes. they can decide to remove nodes at their whim.
i freakin love fast food, and as soon as covid hit i had to start a ‘blacklist’ of places that have gotten so bad (chipotle/tacobell/bugerking), its just not even kind of worth it.
fiveguys is one of my favorites as it did not change in any way.
theres also a critical ‘relay’ component required that so far only Bluesky runs, so not-so-federated.
there is no such thing as a 100% independent bluesky install to which people can attach also independent nodes (PDS).
you runnin your own relay or is it all ‘except the relay and appview’?
go lookup the tax rates in the 60s/70s. we used to
is this where we get to explain again why its not really ai?
dictators dont steal or take control. its handed to them.
i had this exact issue until i wiped my machine this summer and it refreshed into a full win11 after the crowdstrike debacle
i hate ms with every fiber of my being, but teams has gotten better. it used to be practically unusable. now its just mostly so
yeah that entire series was kind of mind fuck. i loved it
oh im sure. the grass is always greener and all that…
how many very dark/horror stories are there were eternity is the true evil? many.
brazil jumped from twitter, that was a huge part of it. the election caused another wave.
bluesky is just twitter with faux-federation. it will end up with the same issues eventually when its board decides to recoup.
yes, its a chicken and egg problem and a huge hurdle for literally anyone trying to create new platforms.
its about feature parity (even if they dont really exist, re:account portability), marketing among other things. bluesky is run buy a bunch of big names who were able to draw an initial load of users which got their ball rolling.
its about blueskys volume reaching a ‘critical mass’ which will continue to then draw users.
huge groups (recently, brazil) moved there en-masse because it already had a ton of users.
its the same reason twiiter even still has users… they dont want to leave that volume of subscribers.
they wanted at least some feature parity with twitter in order to draw users expecting that environment.
i used to call the micrblog stuff the ‘twitterverse’… and i kind of still want to. I may edit my mbin instance to use that term, and i also hate ‘magazine’ in favor of ‘Subs’ or ‘Community’
to me all of these server products are federating media servers with varying access to those 2 pieces. the underlying software should be nearly irrelevant except for them.
the ‘community/magazine’ is the source of the data and ‘remote’ servers cache that data. when i post to tenforward im posting to the source@itshomeinstance and my server receives a copy… a locally cached version.
my server still has a ton of kbin.social content for example despite that server being doa.
i refer to my instance, at the moment, as primarily an ‘onramp’ server. my users utilize it to access remote content almost exclusively as you point out piefed does. But, my server also caches a huge amount of fediverse data… both from all the lemmys and major microblog platforms mastodon, threads, and universodeon among others.
the specific platform lemmy.world utilizes should have no impact on me or my users if they do things correctly.
then its even more likely as skin cells are sloughed off 24/7 and where do they go? everywhere.
the threadiverse is a subset of the fediverse (microblog + threaded forums)
forumverse isnt a bad suggestion… doesnt seem to roll off the tongue though. im going to use threadiverse as its the value i want to see and i dont give 2 shits about meta.
users dont block incoming IPs for instances.
this is useless advice for op.
which is similar nonsense which ActivityPub has with replicating whole datasets everywhere… cept its one company controlling the whole shebang. its a failure of design.