Chris Remington
Volunteer amateur systems administrator for Beehaw. Stay-at-home dad. Outdoor enthusiast.
Bluesky: @beehaw.org
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In the future, instead of copying the entire article into a post, please use an archive link instead.
Example -> https://archive.is/r5lxL
Thank you.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That3·4 days agohttps://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.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That4·4 days agoIt’s meant to explain what decentralization is and is not. That’s all.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That6·5 days agoPlease 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.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That5·5 days agomore 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.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•Bluesky may soon add blue check verification | TechCrunch11·5 days agoCopying 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.
As stated by @furrowsofar@beehaw.org 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.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMto Gaming@beehaw.org•Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th2·10 days agoLast Epoch and Diablo 4
Getting ready for the new content
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media11·12 days agoYeah. Clickbait title.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media8·12 days agoWe must have better moderation tools if we ever want this instance to grow.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media6·12 days agoI 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.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media7·12 days agoDid you read the article? Do you understand, technically, how Bluesky differs from Twitter (X)?
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research16·14 days agoYes. This is the best explanation of why people choose the platforms they use.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research20·14 days agoI don’t believe it has anything to do with people’s fear. More money means more marketing power. It’s that simple.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMto Politics@beehaw.org•Trump claims a Michael Jordan tattoo is evidence of Venezuelan gang membership1·22 days agoJordan is the undisputed greatest of all time
100%
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls5·23 days agoIn the four years that I’ve been an admin here I’ve only seen one CSAM case. I don’t want to see another one. It was very difficult dealing with it on a personal level.
Right? Use Firefox or a derivative (ex. LibreWolf). Ladybird will be coming out in the future so that may be a viable option.