Well, at least they didn’t go with the Sony Minidisc.
Suddenly I’m worried about AI’s energy draw. “6 percent of global electricity” is not a small amount of electricity.
Further searching turns up the information that “federated” Bluesky PDS instances are limited to ten user accounts each, and API usage limits which may constrain things further. So that would explain why there aren’t any big ones.
So far as I can tell they do all still “federate” through the central server, not directly with each other. So there being not much point in it may also explain why it hasn’t caught on.
Almost as bad as Threads, really.
Well, what’s a popular server? Are there several big ones? Sorry, but I really don’t understand why the answer isn’t turning up in web search results.
PS: Are you sure it isn’t just people who’ve done the “set your domain as your handle” thing but even so are still on the central one? Because even if they have made some small progress towards decentralization they absolutely have not gone so far that there isn’t still a central one.
Is it really? Seems hard to find out. Anyone have a list of Bluesky servers other than the central one with open signups?
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I have no data on that. Cheaper and easier to get tlds like .world might be the most dangerous of all.
They’re probably just as dangerous as .com sites.
I’d not yet call it failed, but it’s not yet fully succeeded either. To my mind, one impediment is something that lemmy.world shares with today’s reddit: If you look at the front page it’s 99% memes and images. That’s the first impression people get, and it probably drives away a lot of people who might want anything else. We need those people to make more text-based communities come alive, if it’s to evolve into anything like the old reddit.
I mean obviously there are lots of people who do mostly want to see memes and that’s fine, but I think it’s getting to the point where it might be useful to have an option that filters out all posts that are just a title and an image.
You should really be more specific. All of them have more content than netflix hulu vudu and prime video combined.
They want one baseball brand. One football brand. One basketball brand. One twitter. One facebook. One instagram.
Why’s everything need to be so complicated, anyway? Can’t we just have on sportsballgame and one twitgramface?
It used to be on ploob, but season 3 is only on nimbo now.
#ChatControl and #EUGoingDark . None of this has even been discussed in the run-up to this election.
Increasingly it does look like Europe really is going dark.
Rule 1: Crushing people with tanks is fine so long as it’s our side doing it.
Literal fucking tankies. I wonder if they will ever come to their senses. Oh well, it’s not as if there aren’t Nazi instances somewhere on fedi as well.
There’s no need to go back to paper maps if it’s just GPS and mobile Internet that are unavailable. Osmand works just fine without them. It’s the map application I always wanted, none of that always-online nonsense.
Hmm. Maybe if I live long enough, my only slightly rusty skills in map reading and navigation by dead reckoning will once again be useful.
You’ll probably want to use Proton. Being based on Wine, it’s not an emulator. It’s a native Linux implementation of various Windows APIs. One way to do it is Lutris.
True, Linux isn’t free because it uses electricity. It’s free because it’s licensed under the GNU General Public License which is designed to defend the freedom of its users.
Looking forward to all the Putin and Xi fans having to explain to us how the Taliban has been unfairly maligned by Western propaganda.