https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

Also, it isn't 'decentralization' in the strictest technical sense. That's what the Decentralization Scoring System is trying to show.

It's meant to explain what decentralization is and is not. That's all.

On November 4th 2024 (election day) I woke up and told my self that I'd try to take a 45 minute walk every day. Since then I've only missed a handful of daily walks. My emotional/mental/physical health has increased substantially. Fortunately, my eldest son and our dog come along as well.

Please look at the big picture here. The Fediverse exists only because of a very niche user base that are technologically exposed to it.

The general public HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE that the Fediverse exists.

Therefore, it would take either an enormous amount of incredibly generous people to market/advertise the Fediverse OR a fuck-ton of money to pay people to market/advertise the Fediverse.

more people need to self-host, or at the very least we need more mon-and-pop style datacenters.

most would rather offload hardware costs and, more importantly, security, to those more knowledgeable.

running one’s own hardware is extremely time intensive, nevermind power and equipment costs

These three points that you've made are NOT accurate. I could go into great detail as to why this is but I won't waste our time nor embarrass you.

The problem, unfortunately, always comes down to money.

This isn't a technological problem.

All of the popular widely used corporate platforms gain more users because they have the money in which to market/advertise themselves.

Copying a comment from Reddit:

Yeah. This is good. E.g. an account claims to be a NYTimes journo, it can then be verified by the NYTimes account. Or an account claims to be an NBA player, that gets verified by the NBA / team account. And each of those verifications will show who granted it.

Contrary to the predictable FUD in this thread, it decentralizes control. Makes it meritocratic - i.e. you earn the privilege to issue verification by proving to be a known and credible source.

Turns out that microplastics in human bodies may not be as bad as feared. The most recent article I read concerning this is that early findings are that normal/average amounts of cardiovascular exercise (ex. walking) per week will rid the body of microplastics through sweating.

Don't get me wrong here. That may be good news, for now, for us humans. However, there is still a lot of research that needs to be done. Not only for its effects on humans, but all the other environmental issues as well.

Thanks. I'll delete this one and repost with another link.

As stated by @[email protected] Firefox or a derivative. I use Firefox Developer Edition and have learned how to turn off all of the spying crap. Otherwise, I'll use LibreWolf every once in a while.

Senator Chris Van Hollen just met with El Salvador's Vice President Félix Ulloa. The VP told Van Hollen that the reason they are holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia at CECOT is because the Trump administration is paying them to do so.

Last Epoch and Diablo 4

Getting ready for the new content

Hell yeah!

Esoterica is a decent channel. Dr. Justin Sledge interacts with us on Reddit sometimes. An interesting fellow.

Yeah. Clickbait title.

We must have better moderation tools if we ever want this instance to grow.

I understand all of that. What I’d like the OP to address is how Bluesky could turn into something resembling Twitter if it’s, technically, very different.

Did you read the article? Do you understand, technically, how Bluesky differs from Twitter (X)?

Preference?

Yes. This is the best explanation of why people choose the platforms they use.