Brave has a good marketing team.

No I’m just replying to a guy saying silly stuff on the Internet

I clearly remember there being a choice in last November, so I don’t think random Americans should get a free pass out of this

Looking at the voter map, I’m not sure I can feel a lot of sympathy, to be honest. It would seem to me that the people made their own bed and now have to lie in it. And much like all other ultra conservative wins in other countries in last decade - the rhetoric of “strong man” seems to be popular, especially in rural, poor areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hungarian_parliamentary_election#/media/File:2022_Hungarian_parliamentary_election_-_Tentative_results.png

But it’s ok, they’re manly man tough, like in the good old days, when men were iron and ships were wood! Leave them to it, they’ll tough it out. They’ve earned it.

As he stated, the service is scaled for the heyday of twitter migration with headroom to spare. Naturally the base infra is going to cost quite a bit.

He’s probably sized to run 5-6 times the capacity he needs at the moment.

People see social media and other things like e-mail and video content as free services.

They just want to join and get on with their lives. Most “normies” don’t really care about being served ads or being tracked. If you tell them about the surveillance industry behind the scenes they just shrug and keep scrolling their Insta feeds and clicking their youtube videos. Even people who complain about ads seem to be incapable of action if you suggest they install ad-blocker.

The people who understand or care about the problem are the ones who might donate, but not all of them. It’s a subset or an subset.

As Jerry says, the donation economy would not be sustainable if the Fediverse was the size of Facebook. Unfortunately that has more to do with human psyche than actual technical merits of ActivityPub or the Fediverse.

And then the game wouldn’t work.

It doesn’t have to be open source. There’s plenty of binary firmware and drivers around.

The Europol’s precog crime-prevention AI needs to be fed again, I see. I’m assuming this is “for the safety of our children” again.

Yeah. On Twitter as well

Sure. Just saying this is federated and you don’t really control where this post ends up.

Uh, there are plenty of Nazis and tankies on fedi. Chances are you’re using software written by hardcore tankies (Lemmy devs). Not everyone is “in the know”. They just follow their brands and influencers. And most don’t really care, they don’t engage too much, just retweet and like the latest football results or whatever the outrage algo puts in their feed. Most people don’t think deep thoughts about their social media platform.

this is potentially the last social identity you have to create.

…as long as you stay centralized on the central BlueSky instance. Once you move out to a (potential, future) federated server, that identity (and it’s super duper verification) doesn’t follow you.

Dude. Don’t keep the bong so close to your keyboard.

100% Mullvad

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

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From decentralised perspective the verification data is stored in the verifiers PDS rather than having the verified-certificate in the subjects PDS which means this particular check is always for the official BlueSky server only and won’t be federated anywhere else. Other potential servers are free to implement their own (potentially different!) local verification scheme with it, but it’s never going to be network wide and it never federates anywhere except the server where it’s implemented.

This is why I commented earlier about their decision to move to ”traditional” social networking space and away from decentralised networking

I think at this point it’s pretty clear that BlueSky is in the traditional social media business instead of being in the decentralized social media business.

Maybe that’s a good decision for BlueSky, they certainly seem to have the growth at the moment, but I think we probably have to forget the dreams of it ever pushing the decentralization angle again.