Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains
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Agreed. But if you're going to fixate on one era, you could do a lot worse than Roman history.
Other cool eras to fixate on:
- Joseon Dynasty and Sejong the Great in Korea
- Chola Empire - naval empire before navies were really a thing
- Ethiopian Empire - somehow survived with strong empire neighbors
There's a lot of really cool history, Roman history is extra cool though since you can see so much of it in Europe.
You can also hear it every day if you’re an English speaker. The Roman conquest of England greatly affected the English language.
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Ofcourse they ain’t making shit from custom domains. Anyone who is interested in connecting a domain to their Bsky account and has the skills or patience to learn how to probably already has a domain bought at another registrar to connect to.
No, its because they don't advertise it at all. The page for buying them has the date 2023 on it.
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Zuckerberg doesn't seem like he has the charisma for that.
I can't really remember hearing him speak at all tbh
I do, when he was talking about rolling back facebooks moderation. His voice still sounds robotic, those hair implants ain't fooling anyone.
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Oh fuck me, HOW in like 25 years did I not get that pun?!
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Oh fuck me, HOW in like 25 years did I not get that pun?!
Maan, same 🤯
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I got my copy of Nero from limewire. It only took 3 full wipes of windows to find one that wasn't a Trojan.
The good old times
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ActivityPub already existed when they started BlueSky. They chose to not make their protocol compatible.
Traditionally, that's what new major version numbers are for. IF (and I stress the "if" because I have no clue about protocol design) it turns out that AT has useful features, a merger of ideas of both ActivityPub and AT could lead to ActivityPub 2.0.
That would be somewhat similar to AMD's proprietary Mantle leading to Vulkan (which was originally intended to launch as OpenGL 5.0).
AP is flexible enough that you can do most AT stuff within AP.
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He's not doing those roman salutes in public yet, though.
But it's kinda funny that the oligarchs are so obsessed with Rome, famous for baking a fallen empire, while enabling the fall of the US.
And Nazis. Maybe, just maybe it has something to do with unchecked power?
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Roman empire, like the nordic pagan BS is also a (extreme) right-wing fetish.
So glad to see our new PM celebrating his election win like this:
Which country? Looks like a swede in italy
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Or non-profits that are willing to accept money from supporters.
The fact that we don't see this yet, and that Bluesky has accepted the amount of money they have from actors I would not want to be associated with, makes me doubt this is possible.
Even if a non-profit wanted to operate with good intentions, the expense of running an AT proto hub would eventually prove a challenge, and the non-profit would either go under or need to start looking around for money. Meanwhile people can self-host their Mastodon instance on a Raspberry Pi.
Regarding the alleged missing features of ActivityPub, I have tried and failed to understand exactly which feature is the AT proto so desperately want that they found it impossible to achieve through ActivityPub. The whole thing with having a mobile identity or whatever seems like a nothing burger to me - at the end of the day it just means that your user name is your DID number, and that web addresses can redirect towards that one. It's hardly some technological marvel that could never have been achieved on a less centralized protocol.
It can be done on the fediverse anyway.
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I guess that's fair, as a way to make users identifiable with the same user name all over the internet, no matter which platform they are on.
When people sign in using bluesky on https://frontpage.fyi/, they are still bluesky accounts? Or does the account somehow transform into something that exists between both sites?
Is there any real innovation here beyond a combination of "sign in with x service" and having your domain appear as your user name?
frontpage will store its data on your user server.
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I feel like if anybody knows anything about history that's the thing they know.
And who killed hitler
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But on frontpage.fyi, if you want to sign up, you have to sign up through Bluesky. They direct you to bsky.app to create your account.
I just don't see how this is a real functional example of a portable account. Maybe it is not supposed to be - if so, is the decentralized nature of accounts demonstrated anywhere in a practical way?
I struggle to understand things I cannot see.
You can login with any pds (personal data server) on frontpage, i can self host my own one, and login with it on frontpage.
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You can login with any pds (personal data server) on frontpage, i can self host my own one, and login with it on frontpage.
Okay, that's more interesting! Thanks!
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Okay, that's more interesting! Thanks!
Its still not really decentralised, because all the pds's need to be crawled by a relay, but its still a pretty cool technology.
Someone made flushes.app which I think is a good demonstration of how it can be used. -
Its still not really decentralised, because all the pds's need to be crawled by a relay, but its still a pretty cool technology.
Someone made flushes.app which I think is a good demonstration of how it can be used.Cool.
It's funny how one of the main criticisms of ActivityPub is that it's too difficult to implement, yet after all this attention the best the ATmosphere has managed to come up with is a toilet flushing repository. But I see the value of the portable identity. I think.
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Cool.
It's funny how one of the main criticisms of ActivityPub is that it's too difficult to implement, yet after all this attention the best the ATmosphere has managed to come up with is a toilet flushing repository. But I see the value of the portable identity. I think.
Well, its easy to build an app on atproto, but lord forbid you want to do anything with a pds.
The activitypub spec is so much easier to read and understand than the pds spec.Also, portable identity is possible on activitypub as well, its just not implemented in many projects.
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Free services? Where?
Free services don't really exist.
You're saying this on lemmy.
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Mastodon has merch, but it sells out near-instantly.
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Their custom domain business can't be big, I am assuming they merely get some referral commission from sending business to a registrar, that can't be a lot of money.
Or am I missing something?
True, but they also just don't fucking advertise it at all, and its on a forgotten subdomain only linked to in a blogpost, and the date on the page still says 2023 at the bottom.
