Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms
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B/c people are indoctrinated under capitalism to need some kinda daddy.
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an unanswerable question: what server do you want to be on?
This question is extremely easy to answer. We all did it. I don't think people on Lemmy are some kind of master race. smh.
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Most people use several email servers for work, school, personal, etc.
Somehow those dolts figured it out. Shocking. \s
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Good luck with you hotmail account... Or using Outlook... etc.
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Jack Dorsey never had ownership (just directed an investment) and left the board (didn't agree with moderation, lol)
Jay also isn't majority owner.
It's a public benefit corporation too so they don't have a profit requirement.
The harder parts with decentralizing content-addressed systems like it is scaling open spaces (like how a microblog is technically one big shared space). You need big caches and big indexes. They're working actively on making it easier for others to run those app servers. There's already a few independent projects building them. Federating account hosting and feed generation and moderation services are all live already
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The canonical list of operations on a social media platform far exceed that of an email service, a bulletin board,
This is just untrue. There's almost nothing to Twitter, IG, etc., while many bulletinboards are far more complicated.
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He never had ownership. The investment was in the form of a contract to build the protocol, not buying shares.
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He's not a shareholder, and also it's a public benefit corporation so shareholders have less power over the board
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FOSS is the final destination after people get sick of capitalism ruining every other app/site.
People usually don't go back to shitty products unless they have no choice. Linux users don't go back to Windows. I'll never use an Adobe product again. Etc.
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Almost everything is available. You can run your own account host, feed generators, moderation services, app servers (appview, relay) and most code is open. The only thing not open is a bunch of custom scaling optimizations (like database configurations) and configuration for the official recommendation algorithm & spam filtering mod tools, and stuff like that. All the rest is available, and the things that's missing aren't necessary unless you want to match their user count (but then you can probably build it yourself)
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It's a take that apparently requires a lack of reading comprehension on your part.
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Being a scientist doesn't mean you have the technical knowledge to run a public facing server.
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Define "Scientist".
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Would he better if it was Mastodon, but I suppose I shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good, and good riddance to Twitter, indeed.
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And even without that, I still have felt that the quality of replies doesn't drop THAT much one it hits Discover - but it may be partly who I follow/am recommended, that block lists are doing a great job of eliminating trolls+spam, and I just automatically ignore any stupid/low effort stuff ("wow you are the best at that thing you posted about", "that js amazjng i have never seen a linux before" or whatever).
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I have no clue on the reasons people like Bluesky (or threads). None at all.
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"Sorry, it's literally impossible for us not to sell your data!"
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I'm just saying, because someone is a scientist absolutely does not absolve them of human fallibility. I just don't like the take of "because scientist, therefore smart or wise" and that's not true, they're just (hopefully) educated and credible in their one specific field and nothing else.
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Going to play devil's advocate here.
Bluesky is just...better than any Fediverse microblogging platform. In terms of UI, discoverability, and keeping a balance of users in the community.
Mastodon sucks for regular people. And none of the other better platforms like Firefish ever gain enough steam to beat Mastodon because of existing issues in the structure of the Fediverse and ActivityPub (this also includes Mastodon itself to an extent).
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Bluesky has a lot more normies on it while mastodon is mostly early-adopter types. Mastodon, in my experience, is either very technical people (software engineers and other tech people) or very political people. Bluesky has normal people on it
I checked out threads for a day and I liked it because the algorithm wasn't jamming a bunch of outrage content down my throat but that's the only thing I can say about it. Haven't used it since then (deleted my entire meta account)
