The vision of #ActivityPub AFAIK is that social media servers would be as ubiquitous as websites and email servers and just as independent. That's not the goal of #bluesky relays or any other social media model I'm aware of.
Am I wrong to think that matters in regards to free speech and #DemocracyOfReach? Is it somehow unworkable? Or are there other goals that people think matter more? What am I missing? #SocialWeb
ich habe den Bluesky Connector auf meiner Instanz aktiviert. Von Zeit zu Zeit passiert es, das einer meiner Bluesky Beitrรคge geteilt wird. Davon bekomme ich wieder und wieder eine Benachrichtigung. Wenn ich die Benachrichtigung als "gelesen" markiere, bekomme ich kurz darauf wieder die gleiche Benachrichtigung. Die einzige Mรถglichkeit das zu unterbinden besteht darin, den Beitrag auf Bluesky zu lรถschen.
Another incident seems to have occurred over on #Bluesky.
As reported by Bluesky user Sage Divinorum (skyview.social/?url=bsky.app/pโฆ) it seems that a post by someone whose husband was taken by ICE was removed and their account suspended. In addition, Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety Aaron Rodericks posted a sarcastic GIF ridiculing the person.
The incident is being criticized for both unprofessionalism and administration friendly political bias.
Blueskyโs head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior.
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety.
#FotoVorschlag: Dinge die mit "N" beginnen oder so aussehen // Things that start with "N" or resemble the letter "N"
Ein formschönes N im #OlympicPark #London (ja, es ist gespiegelt; ich hatte ursprünglich die Rückseite aufgenommen, aber ein И ist ja was ganz anderes). Es gehört zur #Skulptur "RUN". // A striking N at #QueenElizabethOlympicPark in London (yep, I flipped it; I photographed it from behind, but an И is an entirely different matter). It's part of the #sculpture "RUN".
𝘙𝘜𝘕 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴
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#FotoVorschlag: Dinge die mit "N" beginnen oder so aussehen // Things that start with "N" or resemble the letter "N"
Ein formschรถnes N im #OlympicPark #London (ja, es ist gespiegelt; ich hatte ursprรผnglich die Rรผckseite aufgenommen, aber ein ะ ist ja was ganz anderes). Es gehรถrt zur #Skulptur "RUN". // A striking N at #QueenElizabethOlympicPark in London (yep, I flipped it; I photographed it from behind, but an ะ is an entirely different matter). It's part of the #sculpture "RUN".
What life is like for Palestinians from Gaza on centralised, US-based, Big Tech networks like Bluesky (yes, itโs all those thingsโฆ did something about them make you think otherwise?)
How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.
Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog from each site. It is an imperfect measure - and a vain one - but lets me know where I should be spending my time. No point posting on a network which is just bots talking to each other, right?
Earlier this year I built a stats-counter for my blog. Every time someone clicks from a website which links to my blog, it records that visit in a database. I get to see which blog posts are doing numbers, a
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Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!
How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.
Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog from each site. It is an imperfect measure - and a vain one - but lets me know where I should be spending my time. No point posting on a network which is just bots talking to each other, right?
Earlier this year I built a stats-counter for my blog. Every time someone clicks from a website which links to my blog, it records that visit in a database. I get to see which blog posts are doing numbers, and where those numbers came from.
Until fairly recently, the Mastodon social network didn't send referer details. I thought that reduced the visibility of the network and lobbied for it to change. As various Mastodon servers upgrade, and admins opt-in, it is becoming more apparent just how much traffic originates from the Fediverse.
Over the last few weeks, here's how many people have clicked from BlueSky and Mastodon to one of my blog posts.
At first glance, it doesn't look good for our elephantine friends, does it? The butterfly sends over twice the traffic. Game over!
But, of course, while Mastodon.social is the biggest instance - it is far from the only one. What happens if we slide down the long tail? Here's all the Mastodon-ish instances which sent me over 10 clicks.
If you add up all the Lemmy instances, they send about as much traffic as Facebook and LinkedIn combined. That's not a huge surprise - those platforms hate anyone clicking away to the wider web.
Twitter is basically the Dead Internet. I'm no longer on there, but I do occasionally search it to see who is sharing my posts. The popular posts I write get shared a lot - sometimes by accounts with huge followers - yet there are no comments or retweets and barely and clicks.
I don't do Instagram or Threads, and that might be reflected in their low numbers. But I'm not active on YouTube either - yet people there occasionally link back to me.
Firstly, my stats only represent my site. Your site might be very different.
Secondly, I've ignored search engine traffic, big blogs, newsletters, and other sources.
Thirdly, and most importantly, this isn't a competition! The desire for a "winner-takes-all" service is dangerous and disturbing. An ecosystem is at its most vibrant when there are multiple participants each thriving in their own niche.
I want a thousand sites, running a hundred different software stacks, some of which only serve a dozen people, or even a lone participant.
People on #Bluesky, did you realise that the list of who you are blocking there is public?
There is even a website that shows some stats about blocks: clearsky.app/
Clicking on any of the users shows you who they are blocking... You can try it for example with @georgetakei (whom I am tagging because he might not have been aware of this)
android-app://org.joinmastodon.android/
android-app://io.syncapps.lemmy_sync/
