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FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

I've had a lot of people ask how BlueSky compares to Mastodon and the Fediverse. I've tried to make the answer as simple and easy to understand as possible:

🦋 BlueSky is designed to give corporations and wealthy people full control of the network. All of its traffic has to flow through expensive-to-run corporate relays.

:Fediverse: The Fediverse is designed to give ordinary people control of the network. All of its traffic flows directly from one cheap-to-run server to another.

#FediTips

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• Diagrams of how BlueSky and its AT Protocol functions, compared to how The Fediverse and its ActivityPub protocol functions. BlueSky's traffic flows from servers to corporate-owned relays, and these relays communicate with each other before allowing traffic to flow to servers. The servers cannot communicate with each other at all. The Fediverse's traffic flows directly between cheap-to-run servers, with no need for any corporate involvement. While technically these are both forms of decentralisation, the BlueSky interpretation puts corporations, rich people and wealthy organisations in full control of the network. The Fediverse interpretation puts ordinary people in full control of the betwork. (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

A PSA that `content-visibility` continues to absolutely rock. Some weekend spelunking on layout costs led me down several blind alleys about selectors and font IPC costs (which did help), but the big win was to expand c-v use, which was a one-liner:

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250126_BiDcXX_2RM,250126_BiDcER_2V5,

Another takeaway for me is that we need much better tooling here. Needing a physical device and Perfetto to understand font costs is...not great.

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whitequark ("✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧") wrote:

existence of traits implies the existence of traitors (those who trait)

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

I don’t come from the tech industry. I’m not a famous developer, I’m not a prolific writer, and I’m not a podcaster. I’m just a guy living in Kentucky who thinks people should have a place where they can be real with each other, be vulnerable, and be cared for.

And yeah, as someone recently put it, I’m gonna be “rude and shouty” when I see people who claim they want that too but don’t live up to it. Because this is a space where where people matter, and where we can be better.

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adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

I want our community to always be a space where everyone can be themselves. Where everyone can talk openly about tough issues. Where people can share their pain about real problems, and get real sympathy and compassion in return.

Not where people are pressured to conform to a watered-down, phony standard. Not where you can be vulnerable only to be shut down by someone who thinks less of you because of your skin color or disability. Not where hate lives quietly beneath the surface.

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adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

When I started omg.lol, I wanted to build a thing where you could get a web page and email address tied to a fun domain name. That was all.

I didn’t set out to build a community. The community emerged entirely on its own. People came together and asked for a space to gather and share. So, we built one together.

Now it’s here. It’s a thing. And I want it to always be *good* thing.

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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• Star Trek Voyager scene. We're outdoors on a brick street in a future version of San Francisco. Civilians and starfleet officers are walking to and fro past a tram/subway type station with a sign that reads, "Mission District Line, Express Stop, Trans Francisco."

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ingrid@everything.happens.horse ("Ingrid Burrington") wrote:

The egg is objectively both the funniest and the absolutely most devastating foodstuff to have its supply chain collapse in the first weeks of a fascist regime

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

For two decades, Silicon Valley’s strategy has been to subsidize massive losses in order to obliterate the market and become a monopoly i.e. Amazon, Uber, etc.

Now, China is doing the exact same thing with every market, and the US cannot do anything about it because regulating this type of strategy would necessarily also target US tech companies, making them slightly less powerful.

The American people, ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/01/26/for-two-decades-silicon-valleys.html

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@adam @chipotle

Excellent writeup. ❤️

> We’re in a time where staying above the fray, where tut-tutting people sounding the alarm for being so uncouth about it, is choosing a side. You’d better be damn sure it’s the side you want to be on.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Look at these DEI hires.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/26/anti-dei-is-another-word-for-racism-and-sexism/

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• Tuskegee airmen from WWII (remote)

Reblogged by chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin"):

asymco ("Asymco") wrote:

It’s interesting how all the people who adored Musk as recently as 3 years ago now say they don’t recognize the guy. I know two such people personally and now I hear that Grimes is shocked, shocked, shocked by his behavior. I have never been a good judge of character but I saw Musk coming 10 years ago. Damn, how dumb can smart people be?

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daveshea@cosocial.ca wrote:

This pigeon-sized Merlin falcon came to say hi on the 12th floor.

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• Bird of prey sitting on a ledge looking straight at the viewer, blurred cityscape in the background. (remote)

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UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

"Aye, the sirens," says the lighthouse keeper, picking a bit of tobacco from his beard. "Some nights, when the wind is just so, I swear I can hear 'em singing." "What do they sing?" I prod him. A faraway look in his eyes, he says in a voice barely above a whisper, "Tubthumping."

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• A golden retriever in a hooded jacket stares out of frame. The fur under their muzzle implies a beard. (remote)

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pratik@writing.exchange ("Pratik") wrote:

@sam_c I’ve always felt a place that stifles or frowns upon any political discussion is ultimately meant to maintain the status quo which generally benefits the privileged. We’re finding it firsthand how politics affects us all and how we cannot or should not stay silent. @adam @chipotle

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sam_c@mstdn.social ("samjc") wrote:

@adam @chipotle absolutely spot on and I think why I'm starting to look at moving on after hosting with them for a year. It's not the particulars of the incident that have made me disgusted at Manton or anything (though it was poorly handled), it's seeing what happens when the conspicuously apolitical platform where people gush over fountain pens, coffee, and Apple products collides with a genuine political grievance

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kiko@indieweb.social ("Kristof Zerbe") wrote:

I have spent the whole morning analysing the discourse between @adam and @manton for myself and I am now convinced that the days of appeasement are over. Like Sophie Scholl in the past, we have to take a stand, even though I know that dividing different opinion groups into extremes, inevitably leads to violence and suffering at some point. But unlike my own ancestors, I won't be blamed for looking the other way, because in the end all that remains is shame.

https://social.lol/@adam/113867348209769275

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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

"I was out buying eggs when I saw a video of Elon Musk giving a Hitler salute at the inauguration." Some thoughts on the current moment: https://werd.io/2025/in-the-face-of-this-who-do-you-want-to

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claudinec@aus.social ("Claudine C :antifa:") wrote:

Via @jayeless, an analysis of this week's tempest in the #IndieWeb. @chipotle's angle helped me see why I was initially taken aback by the tone of some of @adam's posts. I've always skewed 'genteel' and it's taken me nearly a lifetime to realise that's because I'd been domesticated by the colonisers. I'm probably always going to have that unconscious filter in front of me so I'm glad there are people like Adam who will be rude and shouty on behalf of his customers and community members who don't share his privilege.
https://social.lol/@adam/113886244329692234

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Can’t argue with facts 🤣

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The man in the White House is a psychopath.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/26/its-genocide/

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• Michael Myers, murderer, on the phone (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Unrelatable. Anyone with that many spiders would have an easily accessible source of insects in-house.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/26/not-how-it-actually-works/

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• Cartoon character orders a shipment of insects from a grub hub delivery guy. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

He's such a sweet boy.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A fluffy black cat (Jiji) is being cradled in arms like a baby. Another hand is giving him head scritches. His ears move back and forth with the movement.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

all the little sounds he made, all the small things that made Oscar’s presence known are missing, and the house feels silent and empty. I keep listening for his feet paddling down the stairs, on his way to say hello and sniff what we have been doing.

there is a hole in my universe.

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• Oscar the Housepanther, lying in his cat-tree & basking in the Spring sunshine, enjoying the breeze through a window (remote)

jwz wrote:

[suspenseful music]

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parents4future@climatejustice.global ("Parents For Future :verified:") wrote:

5 years ago: "It's Actually Science, Motherfuckers!"🔥

"Grow the fuck up. You're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you're adults now" — Bill Nye

Last Week Tonight at 18m15s https://youtube.com/watch?v=JDcro7dPqpA&t=1095s

#ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels

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• "It's Actually Science, Motherfuckers!"🔥 "Grow the fuck up. You're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you're adults now" — Bill Nye (remote)

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kauzerei@social.tchncs.de ("Kauzerei") wrote:

@NanoRaptor can a circus be really "mine" in late-stage capitalism? It often doesn't feel like I really own it, and to be honest, it does not feel like I have any influence on the monkeys, yet it's somehow my problem :/

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Random musing: I wonder if in the future, the average joe will stop referring to bots being “programmed” to do things, but rather “trained”.

Then humans will have another, more elevated term…like “tutored” or “educated” or some such.

#machinelearning #ai

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cheetah_spottycat@toot.cat wrote:

Look, it's all my favourite streaming services on one platform!

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• The disney logo, the netflix logo, the paramount + logo and the amazon prime logo .... but all the letters changed to just "TORRENT". (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

White House in talks to have Oracle, US investors take over TikTok, NPR reports | Reuters

"The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab and a group of outside investors to effectively take control of the app’s global operations, National Public Radio reported on ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/01/25/white-house-in-talks-to.html