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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media (www.businessinsider.com)
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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how "first-gen social media users have nowhere to go." Ouch.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bluesky now has a federated server and moving people over. I'm curious how that's going to play out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bluesky is not really decentralized like Mastodon. It's more like crypto where the bigger you are the more influence you have over the network. There is zero incentive for someone to host a server off of .social since they will control it. Having a BS server does nothing besides provide Jack Dorsey and co with a little free hosting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I use both and mainly curious because it doesn't take as much as Mastodon to show you what you want to see. Or maybe I think that because I came from Mastodon to Bluesky, but I understand what both are. People know what Bluesky is but when I bring up Mastodon people are not really interested. Jack Dorsey is also no longer involved.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I’m hopeful that long term, AtProto and ActivityPub end up merged into one future standard. But even if they end up separate, it’s not the end of the world since they’re both open and bridges already exist.

It’s kind of like Atom and RSS. Soon, users won’t have to care or know the difference and eventually, code libraries will make it so even developers don’t have to know the details.