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It should matter that one of Bluesky's investors is Alumni Ventures, which also funded Outlogic (formerly known as X-Mode Social) - basically a data broker that collected and sold location data by tracking various mobile apps (including dating, music, weather, and Muslim prayer apps.)
Among other controversies, Outlogic/X‑Mode had supplied location data to U.S. military contractors:
themarkup.org/privacy/2022/01/… & cyberdaily.au/security/10093-n…
NSA called out for purchasing data from illegal data brokers
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been called out for the unconsenting purchase of American data through illegal data brokers.Daniel Croft (Cyber Daily)
Just a reminder: everything you do on social media is public. Even if you delete a post on your instance, it can still exist on other instances, in the cache of search engines or private databases.
Something a little different for this week’s article - a guide to the Twitter/X exodus from a disability and chronic illness point of view.
People are leaving the site in droves - whether because of changing privacy and data policies or in protest of Musk and Trump’s increasingly fascist and problematic behaviour.
What happens to the disability community who’ve long relied on that app for support, friendship and connection? People who are sick can’t migrate to a new platform as easily as their non-disabled counterparts.
How can we help people find community elsewhere? How can we ensure the transition takes as few spoons as possible?
Most importantly - how can we ensure no one gets left behind?
disabledginger.com/p/the-xitte…
#fediverse #twitter #bluesky #socialmedia #elonmusk #trump #exodus #disability #chronicillness #disabilitycommunity #spoonies #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #resist #leavenoonebehind
The Xitter Exodus and What it Means for the Disability Community
Disabled and chronically ill people have long used Twitter/X for community, fundraising, companionship and support. With folks leaving in droves - where will we go and how can we stick together?Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
So, this is cool 👇
The newest post from @tomgauld.bsky.social was shared ~600 times on #Bluesky. But thanks to @bsky.brid.gy it was also shared 250 times on #Mastodon.
(But because most of the accounts here aren't bridged, #TomGauld doesn't even know about this.)
As an idealist #activitypub should be enough for all federated apps out there.
The reality: We're building bridges to #bluesky and Pixelfed would like to implement two protocols for one app.
We gained nothing if developers implementing multiple protocols to be federated.
Can we please agree on a decentralised protocol? Thanks!
github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/i…
Bluesky Support · Issue #5348 · pixelfed/pixelfed
Bluesky Federation Description This issue proposes adding optional Bluesky federation support to Pixelfed. This would allow Pixelfed users to: Follow Bluesky users and view their posts in their Pix...GitHub
Jack Dorsey completely left the board of Bluesky on May 2024 and cut all ties with Bluesky. I think he has no shares either, can't confirm it though. However, if he "lost all interest" like he said, I wonder why he'd want to have any shares of it. Dorsey's main focus is in Nostr.
Sources:
theguardian.com/technology/art…
forbes.com/sites/digital-asset…
Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk’s X
Twitter co-founder’s decision to leave rival social network he helped start was apparently unexpectedAlex Hern (The Guardian)
I assume that the scientists heading to Bluesky remember this and are cool with this, right?
"Jack Dorsey endorses Robert F Kennedy Jr for president"
independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
comicsands.com/dorsey-endorses…
#Science #Research #Academia #Bluesky
Jack Dorsey endorses Robert F Kennedy Jr for president
The anti-vaxxer announced his bid for president in April and hit the campaign trail for the first time last weekMaroosha Muzaffar (The Independent)
Ich selber kann schwer nachvollziehen, ob Jason Koebler mit seiner Kritik am Fediverse richtig liegt. Ich habe jedenfalls keine Probleme meinen Feed mit interessanten Beiträgen zu füllen.
Mastodon und ActivityPub weisen immer noch einen stark überhöhten Anteil an Leuten auf, die über Technik und nerdige Internetthemen (liebevoll ausgedrückt) sprechen, und es ist schwer, aktive Diskussionen über beispielsweise Sport, Popkultur, Prominente usw. zu finden.
Trotzdem, ein stellt der Artikel einen sehr interessanten Vergleich zwischen dem Fediverse und Bluesky an.
#Fediverse #Bluesky #SocialMedia #Socialnetwork
The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet
Or: Why Threads is not it.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Should @pixelfed explore adding native support for Bluesky/AtProto?
Feedback wanted!
github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/i…
Bluesky Support · Issue #5348 · pixelfed/pixelfed
Bluesky Federation Description This issue proposes adding optional Bluesky federation support to Pixelfed. This would allow Pixelfed users to: Follow Bluesky users and view their posts in their Pix...GitHub
"When writing about #Bluesky, I’ve seen folks mention that it’s either federated or decentralized. I’m here to tell you that it’s currently neither."
anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-b…
Maybe Bluesky has “won”
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with.Gavin Anderegg
Bluesky wants to introduce a paid subscription
The Bluesky microblogging platform has grown significantly over the last year, from 2 million users last November to more than...Filipe Espósito (9to5Mac)
on a decentralized network, all the posts have to be pulled together (and managed somewhat) for you somewhere.
#bluesky / #ATproto does it with the relay they control. #ActivityPub / #mastodon does it via the server your account is on. #nostr lets you use multiple relays but then your client also does some of it afaik.
the question seems to be how much of that work do people want to do themselves vs sharing the cost and time involved. what are the tradeoffs in freedom and control? #SocialWeb
GitHub - 11ty/eleventy-import: Utility to import content from multiple services (and a CLI, too)
Utility to import content from multiple services (and a CLI, too) - 11ty/eleventy-importGitHub
For some reason people fleeing the sinking #Twitter / #X ship for #BlueSky don't seem to be aware of the fact that crypto bros at #BlockchainCapital bought a huge stake in the company just a few weeks ago. Like these are basically the same crypto bros who just helped #ElonMusk buy Twitter. They might even be literally the same people (I strongly suspect they are but I'm too lazy to check). Either way #BlockchainCapital was co-founded by #BrockPierce, who also brought you #Tether, AKA the company that Trump's transition team chairman manages $120 billion for. Pierce is also a friend of the #Netanyahu family.
You don't have to take my word for it. Here's the official press release: bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2…
Moving to BlueSky is not an escape. Growing a base there is just putting in a bunch of work to create a platform that will be co-opted by crypto bros as soon as X breaks in half.
p.s. crypto bros (#a16z) also own #Substack
#crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #USDT #Trump #DonaldTrump
And the Fediverse for all the cool people.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
#mastodon #fediverse #bluesky #threads #instagram #facebook #tiktok #socialmedia
The exodus from X to Bluesky has happened – the era of mass social media platforms is over
There’s comfort in being surrounded by like-minded people, but challenge is important, and we may have to look for it elsewhere, says Guardian columnist Gaby HinsliffGaby Hinsliff (The Guardian)
IMHO: #BlueSky isn't decentralised or federated. The outage on 2024-11-14 is obvious proof. It may *look* decentralised and they definitely love to outsource traffic/storage costs by claiming that running your own PDS (Personal Data Server) is somehow something federated, but that's all smoke and mirrors. You have to go deep on [1] to find "networking through Relays instead of server-to-server" as their current implementation choice. THEY run the relays. No one else.
[1] bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-202…
Federation Architecture Overview - Bluesky
Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment for federation. In advance, we want to share some technical details about our design decisions.Bluesky
Disappointed #X users are going to #Bluesky instead of #Mastodon
People like what is closest to what they are already using. #Mastodon is laid gratuitously different in terms of buttons to push and links to click. People who left #Twitter earlier didn't like that and left.
The crowds are different.
The prime content providers are staying on #X. Some are going to #BlueSky. Some are reposting here with #bots
Then there is the ridiculous size limit on toots on many servers
But I’m not on Bluesky and I don’t have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this in 2023: I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will."
@pluralistic
pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…
Vänstern på sociala medier. Nyhetskartan har publicerat förteckningar över vänsterkonton på sociala medier. Dels alla vänstertidningar och vänstermediekanaler med länkar till deras social mediekonto, del stora personliga vänsterkonton på olika sociala medier.
blog.zaramis.se/2024/11/15/van…
Dear friends,
This is your regular reminder to bridge your account to Bluesky if you haven't done so already (and are not active there)
Open Web, not Walled Gardens!
Autumn flights - I just love it 😇
#aviation #AvGeek #pilot #pilotlife #pilotslife #GeneralAviation #alps #alpen #switzerland #swiss #schweiz #bluesky #sky #weather #Cessna #C172 #avgeeks #avgas #aircraft #upintheair #upinthesky #airplanes #airplane #nature #photography
#Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark 💪
We already joined a long time ago. Follow us ➡️ bsky.app/profile/tutaprivacy.b…
But we also ❤️ it here on #Mastodon; actually it's our favorite. 🤫
“Since Elon Musk took over, the platform has increasingly merged with his own and Donald Trump's political ambitions, while the climate on X has become more harsh and extreme. Therefore, we will not publish anything there from our official accounts”, says editor-in-chief Peter Wolodarski.
#twittermigration #x #mastodon #bluesky
dn.se/kultur/svenska-medier-kl…
DN slutar publicera på plattformen X
The Guardian lämnar X. Ska svenska tidningar följa efter? DN har pratat med fem svenska medier om hur de resonerar kring Elon Musks plattform.Vera von Otter (Dagens Nyheter)
A beginner's guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative | TechCrunch
Mastodon has almost doubled its userbase since Elon Musk took control of Twitter last month. Here's what you need to know about the platform.Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
#enshittification
@falsemirror @NBCNews
#Bluesky
aidanraymond.medium.com/why-bl…
Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky
As the world looks for alternatives to X (formerly Twitter), platforms like BlueSky and Threads are often highlighted as contenders. However, beneath their appealing facades, both platforms have…Aidan Raymond (Medium)
For really no reason at all 😇 here's why I find the user experience on #Mastodon better than in that Nazi Chatroom when it was still called "Twitter":
- 500+ characters
- post editing
- follow hashtags
- better s/n ratio
- no ads
Plus, quintsns.pianeta.uno/ does a pretty good job at replacing paper.li
So I wouldn't go back, even if someone resurrected Twitter. Now, FriendFeed on the other hand... 😆
@pluralistic says it best, why #BlueSky is no alternative:
pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…
pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…
by @pluralistic shared by @brembs
Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky
As the world looks for alternatives to X (formerly Twitter), platforms like BlueSky and Threads are often highlighted as contenders. However, beneath their appealing facades, both platforms have…Aidan Raymond (Medium)
(Sorry, I know I post a lot about #SocialMedia these days)
What do people think of this #Mastodon <-> #Bluesky bridge:
techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/blue…
Mentioned by @WilliamNB :
toot.bike/@WilliamNB/113477354…
Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed | TechCrunch
Bridgy Fed is one of the efforts aimed at connecting the fediverse with the web, Bluesky and, perhaps later, other networks like Nostr.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark
Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark
Bluesky crossed the 15 million user mark today as signups surge in the wake up the US presidential electionWes Davis (The Verge)
The week is over, here are some charts:
For two weeks in a row, #Mastodon brought more #traffic than #X / #Twitter to heise.de.
But I forgot, that's not just via @heiseonline, but also @heisec, @ct_Magazin, @heiseautos, @iX_Magazin etc. (but for Twitter its the same).
#Bluesky is way behind, #Threads even more. Only Twitter is clearly falling.
(🧵 1/3)
#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#TwitterMigration
#MastodonMigration
#Fediverse
This user account now shows up as rolle.social on Bluesky thanks to BridgyFed. Instructions here: fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky-enhan…
Hello Bluesky here from Mastodon 👋
Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X
theverge.com/2024/11/11/242939…
#SocialMedia #Bluesky #X
Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week
Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in a week and now has more than 14.5 million users total. The “majority” of the new users are from the US.Jay Peters (The Verge)
