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[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 51 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Bluesky is quickly becoming as bad or worse than other platforms. I knew that "no more Caesars" was bullshit.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 55 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's amazing how people just can't learn the lesson that the problem isn't that a particular oligarch owns a public forum, but that public forums are privately owned in the first place.

[–] ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

They did make the at protocol. You can self-host your bluesky.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago

why would you selfhost blue sky instead of mastodon?

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

Why would you self host bluesky. When you have an actual federated open source platform like Lemmy or mastodon?

They are infinitely better respect and grant you the four freedoms of libre software.

[–] exu@feditown.com 12 points 5 days ago

The discovery algorithm runs through Bluesky servers and is extremely resource intensive to self host.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Jack "No More Caesars (excluding myself)" Dorsey.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

dorsey left blue sky a while ago because he forsaw problems and switched to nostr

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

which famously has no problems

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

you're right about the ux; i just tried and couldn't use it lol