At least people know the bluesky logo. Wtf is that triforce on the right
PeerTube (don’t duckduckgo “peertube logo” with safe search off)
Why the fuck does it show rule34
I couldn’t help myself and did it.
Why?
It’s just porn for whatever reason.
it seems entirely random categories and from random sites too, wonder how that happened
My question is why doesn’t the PeetTube logo show up at all? If you turn safe search on, or change any of the letters to capitals (“peertube logO”) it’s nothing but the logo.
its also region dependent! my region shows the peertube logo, but the english speaking regions (and also catalonia for some reason???) show nothing but porn
wtf is this???
Also if you have chosen all regions or at least my home region, it just shows me the logo.
Huh i didnt get it. Must have safesearch(censorship) enabled by default.
Edit: it is in fact straight up porn 💀
Doesn’t for me.
Bruh
bluesky is the liberal cousin in a family of commies, also they actually have an active community with it’s own vibe.
Bluesky is significantly more populated than Mastodon, they’re at about 10 million.
Mastodon barely reached 2.5 million then fell off to less than one million as it’s now in an irreversible death spiral.
Lemmy doesn’t even want to get as big as Mastodon was, much less Bluesky or Reddit or Facebook and Twitter. Lemmy has no chance of sticking around. It’ll just be a little interesting project that once was.
An “irreversible death spiral”? Dude… Mastodon has been around for almost 10 years. It was alive and in use before the corruption of Twitter. It may not be big, but it definitely is not in any kind of death spiral. The Mastodon community is as vibrant and healthy has it has ever been.
I think people tend to forget that the numbers must go up mentality only really applies if you’re trying to squeeze money out of people. A community doesn’t have to conquer the world to be a useful & enjoyable & friendly place.
A solution has to replace Twitter or Reddit or Facebook to be relevant to the big picture goal of undermining their influence and retaking control.
I care about Mastodon’s future success as a vibrant little community about as much as I care about Club Penguin. Not really at all.
People like you are completely in favor of abandoning the masses and letting the corporations and zealots have them and steer them, you don’t like them and don’t respect them and feel like you can live your whole life without concerning yourself with them as they make up whatever new cultural rules they’re encouraged to, vote in whatever fascist seems most fun, and take away whatever rights they’re advised to.
You presume an awful lot about my values and my goals, simply because I told you that Mastodon is not in a death spiral and does not need to take over other social media. To me, that suggests shallow thinking on your part. Your post is insulting and unhelpful.
Truly perverse what centralized social media mentality does to a mind😔
Bluesky has 30 million users and roughly 25 million active users (as per clearsky.app). Mastodon has 1.3 million active users (boosted by the recent exodus to pixelfed), and 11 million accounts (as per fedidb.org)
YouTube may be a mental illness, but it’s my preferred mental illness.
If there is one irreplaceable content network, it’s youtube. The amount of quality shit you can watch there for free is insane.
I hardly use it these days for anything except to follow a number of tabletop RPG/wargame crafters that post videos there, and for that there is just no substitute
Yeah, I was more going for centralisation vs decentralisation but i agree.
I’m fine almost entirely without that mental illness.
Bluesky is just going to turn into twitter in a few years. How does no one see the issue with one company owning a platform?!
Maybe bluesky might take a bit longer, but I don’t see how threads is any better than twitter.
Just a different asshat running the company
Honestly, threads was only popular because of it being fused with instagram, so you would already have an audience and because it was the simplest alternative at the time.
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You need to have a couple of explicitly anticapitalist thoughts to see the issue with it. So yeah, most won’t see the issue with it.
People aren’t thinking that critically. Maybe they need to experience the cycle a couple more times.
If it does, a new alternative will pop up, no biggie
The issue is size
If it was federated the same problems would arise, see lemmy
There needs to be user caps
I disagree. Lemmy didn’t work well because it wasn’t designed to scale. With atproto, it is less resource intensive if users aren’t spread out, in contrast to acitivtypub where its the opposite.
The problem isn’t resources, it’s reach of disinformation
While you can critisise its decentralisation, it is still in development. There is an effort (https://freeourfeeds.com/, cory doctorow supports it) to host atproto infrastructure outside of bsky’s control.
it is not still in development decentralisation on bluesky is vapourware it will never exist it’s just part of the standard EEE cycle it’s marketing they’ll say it didn’t work out and cancel it the second they become the predominant platform
You dropped these: ,…
Punctuation aside, I find that hard to believe, they literally started out as a way to make twitter decentralised after jack dorsey got ✨inspired✨ by a paper on decentralisation. Decentralization on bluesky does exist, they got a lot of flack for banning a trans person who pointed out their head of t&s liked barely legal porn, but she just made her own pds (because bsky is open source) and is now untouchable. All it needs is account moving and to fix up did:plc a bit and it should be decent. I’d reccomend reading @cwebber@social.coop s article about it, points out its strenghts and weaknesses quite well. https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/ . I myself am annoyed at bluesky simple because I am a big fan of mastodon, but its already won.
Bluesky isn’t much better.
You just need to learn to curate your feed.
The problem I have with it isn’t the feed, it’s the ownership.
Specifically who?
gestures around wildly anyone owning social media.
“How dare they not be a huge billionaire corporation that kisses Trump’s ass!” Ok buddy
They are another corporation.
I would’ve thought folks here would understand why corporate ownership of social media is ultimately the problem.
I don’t think that’s their argument. There are no bluesky instances (yet?) so power is consolidated no matter how much they have.
I don’t get why people keep saying this, anyone can host a pds which stores your posts, and a lot of people have done this. Some people are hosting relays (with just bsky.social blacklisted so they don’t go bankrupt paying for storage). https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q
Wait, Alice? As in @Alice@hilariouschaos.com the admin?
i doubt it.
I don’t think anyone said that.
I’m RSS
Unpopular opinion: Bluesky is annoying because if I say anything about queer issues (especially trans ones) I get followed by a bunch of alt-righters and the occasional dude with a kiwifarms avatar or something weird like “we will find you” in their bio. Yeah they’re just bots and they’re easy enough to block but it’s tedious. It’s weird how many people nagged me to join and no one even mentioned that.
This is the first I’m hearing of this. Thanks for posting
Yeah, thats not a bluesky problem specifically, this could easily happen to the fediverse, we’re just smaller, and better equipped to stop it since its more mature.
where lemmy
Probably somewhere between mental illness and real social media.
But for other reasons than the other mental illnesses
I definitely get brain damage every time I open this app
I just screenshat slashdots list of social mediums.
I miss the days of filling up my RSS feed from different websites. I hate how consolidated the internet became.
I mean, rss is really only dead on the consumer side, every website still seems to have it. Twitter is the only big one that got rid of it.
I’m reading quite a few blogs, a lot of them don’t have RSS anymore.
Out of interest, which ones? You could contact the owner and ask them to set it up.
you can still use rss, i have a feed going on my phone and it’s good
Yea, but it’s not the same making an RSS feed from a social media feed. Websites used to be interesting, they were like the “magazines” or “subreddits” of internet before social media took off.
i just subscribe to blogs+articles from journalists i like on mine
Remove Bluesky and add Lemmy.
Are you also on lemmy? Cool to find fellow lemmies in the wild!
I’m on Lemmy right now.
🤯
I am lemming as a lemming at the moment.
Posting from Lemmy right now! It’s so fucking cool how we can all be on different platforms but still chat it up.
What’s the joke, here? We’re all on variations of Lemmy. Bluesky and Mastodon can’t interact with this post.
Mastodon can in fact interact with Lemmy. If you get the fediverse link of a lemmy post (the one with the colourful network logo), and you put that into a mastodon search, you can find the post. From there you can ‘favourite’ the post to upvote it, and you can reply to the post to… well, reply to the post.
Obviously that is not a very practical way to use Lemmy, but it does mean that you can browse an arbitrary Lemmy server without logging in, and then post to it from your unrelated Mastodon account when you want to.
Yeah, that only barely sort of counts. You’d need to be able to directly browse, no two stage two page switcharound.
You can copy a communities fediverse link and it shows up as a user on mastodon.
I just got the screenshot from slashdot. Its the list of their social medias.
Damn, watching videos is a mental illness now?
It gives you the woke virus.
youtube is fine as a video host but it’s awful as a discovery platform. look what it puts on the front page when you’re logged out sometime.
Youtube shorts: 💀
Never log out, my algorithm is tuned to me quite well. Even get very small creators suggested to me.
Definitely seems to be out of the norm though.
I suspect you need quite narrow tastes for the algorithm to be able to figure it out, like if you watch sports videos it’s probably just gonna keep feeding your sports videos forever, because that’s trivially easy and works.
i know i’ve had times were i got a bit too lax with the kinds of minecraft videos i watched and i could feel the algorithm desperately wanting to feed me standard clickbaity shouty videos, and its disappointment when i recoiled from that.
Tech, games and science. It sometimes shoves in other content, but good other content.
My YouTube frontpage is actually empty. Might be due to the various browser extensions I’m using, not sure which one though.
use peertube <3
To watch what?
blender videos
Yes. It all started with animated gifs, and it only got worse from there.
What is Lemmy ?
a mental media
or maybe a social illness…
no its a mental media
A mental illness
hmm i don’t know. it sounds similar to lemm.ee.
Front man for motorhead,duh.
this very slightly enraged me…
Add bluesky to the list of mental ilnesses
Mastodon ain’t any better.
Why? My experience there has been quite positive.
Out of interest, what problems did you have with it?
oh no, germans posting cat photos, the horrors