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BDFL for life (files.catbox.moe)
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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

Context: Lemmy still allow people to comment on your posts or comments after you blocked them:

https://lemmy.world/comment/13548025

https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-19-2023-user-faq

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Mastodon (sh.itjust.works)
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\begin{meme} (files.catbox.moe)
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Decentralized you say? (discuss.tchncs.de)
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See also here.

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Bluesky managed to go offline practically entirely. I count on you folks to spork the hell out of this.

See also here.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

Context:

this is a bit lengthy, so, if you want to go 'Bluesky can suck a dick' and move on then you can, otherwise click here

The election of Donald Trump, with Elon Musk claiming to have been the wind beneath his wings, has been the final straw for a lot of people on Xitter who have, until now, acted like this:

Whole communities have now moved en masse, eg the majority of comic book creators are now on Bluesky, leading some to declare Bluesky might end up defeating Twitter once and for all.

However, Cory Doctorow was written about why he won't be moving to Bluesky, most recently in a post named Bluesky and enshittification where he looks at the lack of safeguards preventing enshittification:

I'm not on Bluesky and I don't have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this in 2023: I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/

When a platform can hold the people you care about or rely upon hostage – when it can credibly threaten you with disconnection and exile – that platform can abuse you in lots of ways without losing your business. In other words, they can enshittify their service:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/#how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess

He thinks the fact that a blockchain VC having a financial stake in Bluesky isn't an issue, if the safeguards are in place, but Dave Troy, who wrote Understanding TESCREAL — the Weird Ideologies Behind Silicon Valley’s Rightward Turn, has has been doing some digging into those currently running BS and finding a lot of post-rationalist and TESCREAL/Effective Altruism links:

3/Now that Dorsey has bailed as a board member and principal funder, Bluesky’s DNA is basically TPOT people. Who is going to win in that scenario? I don’t know, but I’m not putting money on the users. The most recent funding came from Blockchain Capital LLC...

4/🚨It gets worse. Blockchain Capital LLC was co-founded by Steve Bannon pal Brock Pierce, a major crypto advocate, perennial presidential candidate, and close friend of Eric Adams. Pierce has dozens of other shady MAGA/Russia ties as well.

...

6/Possibly Bluesky can address this by discussing their funding in detail, the expectations of the funders, and whether the TPOT/PostRat community is still a principal driver of the vision for the "company." But this all points to another rug pull in progress, and a lot of credulous people hurt.

While it is reasonable that the company acknowledged that Dorsey's vision of "moderation by protocol" was unfeasible, it sets up a highly centralized model that is now subject to capture.

So without any safeguards and with some shifty folks involved it feels like the clock is ticking until they enshittify Bluesky and the users either stay locked in thanks to the sunk cost or switch to Threads or, finally, realise they are better off on the Fediverse.

Relevant previous memes:

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See also here.

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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/12195758

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

Context: https://lemmy.world/c/politics

As a consequence, !asklemmy@lemmy.world mods got a lot of resentment from people wanting to discuss the elections on that community, when they decided to temporarily ban the topic as well: https://lemmy.world/post/21696356

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas and votes. I left the final decision to Blaze who said just go with the two top voted ones. Which made the decision process simpler.

These aren't set in stone, we can revisit this in time, we just needed to fancy the place up a bit now the community has taken off.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

Context

The main arguments for people to defederate are

  • "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
  • A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
  • Defederating preventively costs nothing

LW stance: https://lemmy.world/post/1274909?scrollToComments=true

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submitted 1 month ago by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

!melbourne@aussie.zone for people curious

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How many do you recognize? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18111005

Tag yourself! I'm Blocked

(We apologize for the previously offensive bit- those responsible have been sacked)

Answer Key:

!The Picard Maneuver!<

!Dragon "Rider"!<

!ComradeSharkfucker!<

!PugJesus!<

!BonesOfTheMoon!<

!ByteOnBikes!<

Blocked

!Jeffw!<

!Track_shovel!<

!Return2ozma!<

!Hamid Abbasi!<

!Satan'smaggotycumfart!<

!Fossilesque!<

!Speculator & Kolanaki!<

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See also here.

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