Yeah for an anarchist the only periods that might have been genuinely hopeful were between the revolution and full on civil war in 1917 (like 6 months) and between the failed Soviet coup and the successful Yeltsin one in 1993 (like 2 years)

There’s a one time purchase to remove ads and a subscription for features like machine translation or importing/exporting your communities. It’s $17 yearly or $100 lifetime

Good preview for what’s going to happen to the new York times under the new admin :)

It might, but actual leftists should object to that framing

Not strictly speaking. Bluesky supports did:web as well as did:plc, and with any luck they’ll add more decentralized methods

As a russian I feel this a lot :/

Bluesky (well, atproto, bluesky is the twitter clone running on atproto as a demo app) doesn’t actually have instances in the mastodon sense, it’s a more modular design for better scaling (because it was designed from the start to replace twitter)

Here’s a good article with illustrations https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers

The question of whether someone works for a government is not really a matter of opinion

The Atlantic is not left leaning journalism lmao. A good rule of thumb is that if you publish David Brooks you’re not left leaning

unless i’m missing something, activitypub also needs a centralized authority like dns. That’s just how domain names work

Here’s a really good blogpost (and followup thread) outlining the differences of atproto vs activitypub (from one of the original authors of activitypub).

It got a friendly “acknowledged, we’re working on it” reply from pfrazee, one of the lead bsky devs.

https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3lbku7vdjjv2l

ejoy your cocp is now a part of my vocabulary

That the universal ports are worse for some purposes than the old specialized ones. I feel this especially for magsafe and analog audio

no, no, he has a point

I don’t think most of the data in the network should be hosted by a single legal entity, that’s just unhealthy even if the protocol is open. It’s also my main complaint about bluesky- technically open protocol, de facto centralization.

I can agree both those things happened, but you’re saying one of them had a much stronger effect and so far i’m not seeing any evidence presented

Steam deck: am I a joke to you

me

To be fair it was an underground religion in the west for a while too

You can federate (well, bridge) from mastodon to bluesky (or vice versa) simply by following a bot account, it’s surprisingly seamless.

https://fed.brid.gy/