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Techcrunch has basically been an ad network for companies who want to promote themselves. Other open source projects probably don’t have a budget to pay for an a̶r̶t̶i̶c̶l̶e̶ ad spot.
So which tech adjacent publishing you recommend?
Independent or otherwise.i personally like Ars Technica quite a bit.
Even if it doesnt have much impact on activitypub-fedi, I think this is good news for the fediverse in general. X is loosing more and more relevancy and microblogging is more and more happening on federating services.
I’m having trouble figuring out how bluesky is part of the fediverse at all.
From my understanding it doesn’t federate with anything.
It’s like saying a hamburger is really just a cheeseburger…you just need to add cheese.
It has an adapter that integrated with the current protocol.
In theory, bluesky can federate with other apps but it is currently the only one using their protocol, bluesky servers can federate with each other and when a new project using atprotocol appears it will probably be able to federate with that
There is only one bluesky it’s literally centralized
I’m way too federated for this.
Mastodon.social just went over the 2 million user mark. The switch to fediverse and fediverse adjacent is going pretty quick.
I’ve been on Mastodon for over a year and the content simply isn’t there. Several of the people that I follow on Twitter have tried moving or duplicating to Mastodon. They’ve had a fraction of the visibility and engagement from commenters that they would get on Twitter. Invariably after a few months they have essentially given up on it as a primary medium. For me the discoverability is essentially non-existent, which I don’t think is helped by the idea of it being based around instance-local communities, which have no meaning when you’re looking at something like Twitter.
My experience has been better. User engagement is much higher per follower and the discussions don’t devolve. They’re much more useful and/or interesting. KPIs don’t measure everything.
Maybe, just maybe, if your followers aren’t willing to give up something vile because it’s giving them a dopamine hit, they’re not adding as much value to your life as you think.
people I follow
Guess it’s not for you then. I’m having a blast. A lot of my friends are now in it and the last year or so have been great.
And more and more people seem to be moving.
Blue sky leads to the same trap Twitter was. A place that will be purchased by some asshole that shits on everyone for money.
You’ll be shocked to know that bluesky is open source then and PDS is well on its way to allowing you to host your own instance.
Jack Dorsey left the board, so I’m ok with that. Good for them!
How much is Jack involved? He was the reason Twitter went to shit to begin with.
The CEO comes from the world of crypto and it is a for profit company
I really really don’t like the app
I’m not on Bluesky, what downsides are you seeing in their app?
It’s ugly
People will never learn, will they? You give them AP and they go for the Jack Dorsey clone. Amazing
Jack Dorsey is not involved in Bluesky anymore.
