Built on Bluesky, Pinksky brings its Instagram-like app to Android
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If I follow your concept "not being fediverse", then Matrix or XMPP are not good because thy aren't fediverse neither. I would disagree. Fediverse is only a part of the internet. Pinksky is linked to ATproto, which in deed is developped by the company Bluesky. If the company Bluesky is sold, then nothing forbid to build a new relay, however, the cost of building a full blown one is quite high. But smaller dedicated relay can be build. True that isn't yet happening. PDS can be hosted privately already, and there are thousands non-bluesky-tied servers. Apps like Pinksky exsist and are not tied with the company Bluesky. The only part that is currently worrying me is the PLC server.
Remember the very beginning of fediverse when it was under StatusNet Inc. It's only years later that it became decentralised as we know it today. StatusNet Inc. could have it enshitiffied multiple times.
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We consider bluesky as part of fediverse
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Given how things are going, I bet you're right. Maybe Musk will create a Bluesky instance (or whatever that federalized yet centralized thing is called).
@[email protected] in 5 years to check on the state of bluesky
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Well hello there! Long time no see.
Yeah, lets see what happens.
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Yes it does depend on the front end.
But that's the thing its not the default front end.
Most users will give up before discovering Photon.
The default experience should be very smooth and require little to no effort and thinking. Like what everyone has gotten used to
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Misskey is fine on computer browsers (minus the absurd javascript resource hog, the page's first load is slow as fuck), but I don't think it has any decent FOSS app, mastodon apps don't necessarily connect to misskey
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I see that I forgot to add a question mark and incurred the wrath of some very opinionated lemmy users.
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Cool idea. But no thanks:
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Really anything is better than the default UI. The default Lemmy-ui is functional but not elegant.
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Voyager is just as good as Reddit now. Lemmy feels real and not full of bots. I’m starting the switch over now.
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The funny thing is that this is completely impossible. Only very few, very big or very lucky projects have decent ux and i would even ague that they are THAT much better than proprietary stuff under the hood that they are still comically bad in comparison to their technical prowess.
The reason for this - and yes you will probably disagree - is the shit legislation we have accepted over the past decades. People got addicted to overpolished shitapps with gambling mechanics and dark patterns. The way out is gonna be brutal.
So no, we wont get better ux, preriod. We pay for it or we get buttfu**ed by big tech some more. One way to ensure payment is voting as comically left as you can.
