She/Her - I think the pfp is from Super Alloy Ranger
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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I’m no expert, but I found this blogpost insightful: BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization

    The more I read about BS’s protocol, the more I think this is done on purpose.
    Why? Because it allows BS to pay lip service to decentralization, without actually giving away the power in the system.
    […]
    Another pretty good sign that BS’s decentralization is actually b.s. is the fact that the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) used by BlueSky are currently “temporarily” not actually decentralized. The protocol uses something imaginatively called “DID Placeholder”. If I were a betting man I would bet that in five years it will keep on using the centralized DID Placeholder, and that that will be a root cause of a lot of shenanigans.
    […]
    it decentralizes the cost to the central authority by pushing data load onto volunteers, while planning to keep control by being the biggest kid on the “reach” block.



  • I really like being able to confirm that something isn’t made up or blown out of proportion, being able to quickly check stuff like ‘how many people even agree with this take (a lot of times people leave out the engagement of a post)’ and ‘is this a genuine person in the first place (check out their profile or other posts)’ to not poison discourse with made-up issues
    That said, as others in this thread have pointed to, libdirect should be encouraged so they can discourage traffic to the actual site
    e: though nitter sadly seems to be out of commission for new tweets, rip