All software BlueSky uses is open source and self-hostable and already a bunch of different implementations have started to pop up independently.

Oh that’s cool. So where can I sign up to interact with BlueSky users if I don’t want to sign up to BlueSky?

They still make burners. They’re like $12.

I understood this reference. Thanks @pugjesus@lemmy.world!

Interesting, that never occurred to me. I said that about the wheelhouse because I have a Mastodon account I read from time to time and I can’t recall ever seeing any Lemmy content show in my feed. I never did Twitter though so I’m kind of lost, it might be I just don’t know what I’m doing. I followed like 40 hashtags but I still don’t get a huge amount of content.

Not a stupid question at all. Loosely, I think, it’s any site that trades information using the ActivityPub protocol. Because they use the same underlying protocol, they can easily trade content/posts with each other and yes, Lemmy is part of the Fediverse for that reason.

This is also why you can see posts from lemmy.ca or piefed.social or whatever.domain users while browsing lemmy.world - anyone who sets up a site with the Lemmy software can participate in the network and trade posts with all the others - these are individually called instances. These sites can decide that they don’t want to trade posts with certain other sites (ie: trolls set up a farm on their own instance) and exclude them from their users being able to see them, this is called defederation.

In theory, a Mastodon instance could see content from a Lemmy instance (and Pixelfed and Loops and so on) as they all use the same underlying protocol to trade information, but in practice, it seems that sites basically stick to trading with other sites in their wheelhouse.

BlueSky also started with ActivityPub but I believe they did something to their software to make it proprietary.

The usefulness of all this is: no member site can get a monopoly on content. The largest Lemmy site is lemmy.world and I have an account on there. But I switched to dbzer0 because I disagreed with some of the actions taken by lemmy.world (they defederated from some content that I wanted to see) so I came over here and now I can see that content.

Anyway, that’s my understanding of it.

It’s because parasites like this jackass are paying them to.

I knew that 100000000000 figure was misleading!!!

Also known as Cinco De Mayo! Perhaps some anejo is in order, señor Yoda.

This from the guy who got stabbed through the heart by a stingray.

Huh. I thought it was the invisible things that only cats can see that makes them kinda crazy.

Yeah, I know. Once my brain got over its initial shock, it could tell they were weighty. I did a quick AI query and it turns out they are pandrol railway clips.

Even after getting the actual picture it took me a few seconds to figure out what the hell I was looking at. Why are sausages laying in this hay??? - my brain, probably

Goo Goo Dolls Iris and it’s not even close. Fuck that song to death.

‘This thing that makes almost no money is a dead end. This thing that makes money hand-over-fist is what authorities should focus on regulating instead.’

lol

Yeahhhh I think the Frank thing is a stretch.

Anyway. Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!!

Also, yes Andor is the GOAT.

I worked at a company where we all got paid very well but they still did the bullshit company “team-building.” I never participated on purpose. If I was forced to be present, I did everything I could to make it clear I didn’t want to be there. I was considered a grouch and I fuckin’ was, because unlike the suits that thought this dumb shit up, I had actual important work to do and a gun to my head in the form of a hard deadline.

Yeah, I get it and I share much of the sentiment, but I bet this guy uses Facebook. Everybody should have some level of paranoia, but it’s the rare individual that can beat them all. Me, I’m not on Facebook or any other non-anonymous social media, but I use Gmail. Almost everybody trades off a little somewhere.

Everything you said is absolutely true and thoroughly shit. It’s just a shame that the system’s solution is to now rob them of an actual education as well.

The only thing keeping America on any kind of footing at all is that exposure to classical education largely deprograms the religious bullshit most American kids grow up with. Oh, and it actually educates them, as opposed to whatever AI assisted bullshit “workers” this is going to end up giving us.

Edit: although… religion is dying here anyway, so optimistically, maybe kids these days will need the deprogramming less and AI will improve dramatically. We could theoretically end up with a net benefit.

Can’t argue with people on social media if you’re not on social media.

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I only post on Lemmy and I don’t do a lot of arguing because it leads to beatdowns. Either I get beatdowns from idiots or I get a well-deserved beatdown because I’m the idiot. Get enough beatdowns and you too will tire of it - maybe you are now! Maybe this is a cry for help!