i have a layman’s understanding of AT Proto, but it seems to compartmentalize between different parts of the service. Front ends, databases, and backends can be hosted separately and amalgamate into one, in the abstract.

Practically, however, AT Proto allows account portability, wherein users can swap what instance they use as a frontend on a whim, even if their home instance is down. Usernames are domains instance of username@domain, that are verified by the DNS. But AT Proto seems a lot less flexible than ActivityPub. We’ll have to see when federation is live, but I’m not sure it really suits anything beyond (micro)blogging.

“Cult Apple haters” is a goofy phrase and doesn’t exist. Maybe people who swear off / boycott Apple, but a cult? Goofy.

I personally find them both useful. Well, Tiktok specifically not youtube shorts.

My thing with tiktok is that their content recommendation algorithm is best-in-class at knowing what sort of content I want, and it starts edging away from what I want, just marking stuff as “not interested” a few times will bring it back in line. By modulating my behaviours on certain types of content (i.e. making choices over whether to watch or skip, mark as “not interested”, view comments, comment myself), I can customize an algorithmic feed that delivers what I want.

Granted this is quite an amount of work to use a “social media app”, unlike the other platforms, it’s possible and it’s good.

Youtube (long-form) I think is extremely useful when I’m looking for something in-particular, especially if it’s something that doesn’t age very much. Guides and tutorials, let’s plays, retrospectives, etc. They both fit better with the long-form content, and are much easier to find on Youtube than Tiktok.

The content recommendation algorithm of Tiktok is what makes me use it, while the discovery of specific content and access to longer form content is what makes me use Youtube.

Is there a part of bluesky that’s under an impermissive license?

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That’s legit probably what’s happening though.

It was spun out from within Twitter, initially. It was incorporated independently as a Public Benefit LLC, with Jack Dorsey on its board, intending to make Twitter into an instance of BlueSky.

It’s incorrect to say “it’s owned by twitter now”, as it’s less “owned by twitter” now than it was at its inception.

People will understand if I refer to FF in a context where we’re talking about browsers. They will not understand “Fx”. It’d rather be understood than “”“correct”“”.

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According to their blog post a few days ago, they’re looking at federation in H1 '24, and beginning the move to put governance of the AT Protocol that powers BlueSky to an established standards body like IEFT, though they predict that’ll be a multi-year process.^[1]

I hope they continue to move towards federation; the developers at least appear very interested in it even if the community doesn’t, but I’m gonna be apprehensive about getting too excited until it actually happens.

They have a number of big promises with AT Protocol, including fully portable accounts that let you keep your content, even if your home-instance (what they call provider) goes down,^[2] but it’s hard to see if this is even preferable while they’re still centralized.

Ya, it should be 3 books a week, or even a month, imo.
I do see how someone could publish 3 books in a day, by releasing a full trilogy all together. But beyond that, you really are only looking at people making utter garbage.

I’ve been saying this for months. Kbin folks are just a type it seems

The same thing happened on their mastodon too.^[1] It was wild.

You really wrote your own story here huh? Just a complete fan-fiction to indict OP.

This is where I’m at. Even on english stuff I get pretty miffed if there’s no subtitles. It helps me with things I might mishear, or when the sound mixing isn’t great. It’s a comfort too that I’m not mishearing important lines.

Tinder power users sound like extremely poor dates.