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You have one (1) free teleportation that must be used within the next 24 hours or it disappears forever. Do you use it? Where do you go?

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  • I'd like to visit the center of the sun.

    • incredible find rule

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  • A spiral, going downwards with no bottom in sight.

    • Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account

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  • You could point out typos and mistakes without being condescending.

    • Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account

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  • You could say Bluesky is... picking up Steam, eh?

    Sorry, I have no new or interesting insights to offer, I'd hope most already get what's happening, anyway.

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  • Which marketing and better how, exactly?

    Can anyone please point me an example of Bluesky marketing that isn't word of mouth or large-event headlines on the news?

    • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • The wonders of ActivityPub allow Mastodon users to interact with Lemmy, actually. Wild stuff.

    • Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All

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  • Putting aside control and anecdotes, neither of which would be fair to comment on without more context and a lengthier discussion, this breaks the email metaphor a bit, doesn't it?

    The Fediverse is just like email, where we all talk to each other, except Outlook blocked Gmail because MS and Google had a fight during a meeting so you're gonna have to migrate to Yahoo or learn to self-host.

    That's not necessarily a criticism, I just find it funny.

    • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • Maybe you're already aware, but bluesky doesn't operate with instances like in ActivityPub land.

    I've seen many people I believe are using their own PDS, but yes, discoverability is likely better because a relay is meant to aggregate and share all data it can (look up "bluesky firehose").

    P.S. Mastodon's devs are part of a new initiative to improve this area of the Fediverse. Because it's so recent, we'll have to wait to see how it goes.

    • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • Speaking of features, I'm somewhat surprised more people aren't interested in Misskey and co., especially compared to Mastodon's overwhelming share of the Fediverse pie.

    • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • Maybe on Bluesky they start with one person less calling them tards.

    • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • FWIW you can probably report that. While trying Bluesky, I reported some crappy stuff and I can't remember any that was still up when I checked later.

    How did she find my account?

    Just like Mastodon/AP, data is mostly public by default. I assume it doesn't take much to find new accounts to spam. We're usually talking about bots here, not normal user accounts, just to be clear.

    • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • That's a different thing, and I don't think bigger character limits would help with a culture of not reading past headlines, not verifying and sharing sources, lacking moderation, and so on. Bigger issues.

    • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • I doubt this sort of attitude helps, too. Mastodon developers know at least some of its failings. Migrating to Bluesky is not effortless.

    • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • The amount of internet spaces with generous character limits and shit discussions makes me think that's far from the biggest issue.

    • The DeVault Report

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  • For what it's worth, the rest of the report is mostly fine, and I'm inclined to believe I learned something about Drew. But I also felt that was not honest, and question if it had to be included at all. Looking around, it seems the author likes Stallman, and regardless of how they felt before, they probably disliked Drew when they found he was connected to the Stallman report.

    So thanks for mentioning that weird vibe. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who paused at that section.

    • After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance

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  • And I'm saying you're better off without. That sentence is ridiculous enough already, it doesn't need the source to make it worse. But good on you for worrying about credit, do as you will.

    • After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance

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  • — vintermann, Hacker News

    I don't know who this person is, but adding "Hacker News" doesn't give their words more credibility. It gives them less, if anything.

    Imagine I quoted someone and, underneath it, added:

    — PM_ME_UR_FEET, Reddit

    Both of these enjoy the same level of base, intrinsic trust to me: none.

    • After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance

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  • Just for the record, I know little about gotosocial, but I've looked into Misskey a fair bit and I think it's irrelevant here.

    FediDB data on active users seems off (a low ~12k MAU), but even if the real number is much greater, most are on the flagship instance (misskey.io) which has multiple CSAM censures on fediseer.

    Put another way, it's almost counterproductive to include Misskey in these topics because simply federating with its biggest instance could be a liability for most 1st world western instances.

    I doubt the Swiss government would get much out of Misskey.

    • Mozilla is going to shut down their Mastodon instance

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  • No, I'm trying to reduce the influence of a problematic individual. The lawsuit has, and will have, more coverage.

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  • I didn't want to rain on your parade, but:

    • Firefox has hundreds of millions of users.
    • Lemmy has less than half a million total users, and YTD MAU peaked at 52k.

    Even putting aside technical details, I fail to see how "Lemmy integration in the browser" could be a good product strategy. A plugin/extension can also be developed by independent developers, which seems much more fitting for the size of the target demographic. Maybe I'm missing something.