BlueskyUnfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
Eugen Rochko@bsky.app And this is why real decentralization matters. There is nobody that can decide for the fediverse to block Mississippi.
Mike MasnickI feel like this is potentially misleading, Eugen? Both because others can host their own views of the network, but also will the largest instances, which you run, be willing to pay the $10k/user fines in Mississippi?
Because the state can still go after instances, no?
Nemes ContentIt's really not meant to be a gotcha kinda thing. I'm just trying to understand the actual complaint.
Fair point, and I believe you but I've see how conversations between fedi and bluesky usually goes.
Many people still think atproto is centralized and corporate controlled on the fedi side.
I am curious how eugene will respond since fedi runs tge whole instance as a site that talks to other sites.
My larger point is simply that this is a bad law that impacts both Mastodon and Bluesky (and the wider Fediverse/Atmosphere) and it seems like a reason to work together to fix the law (i.e., with @gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy) than to use it to take potshots at each other. The law is bad.
@[email protected] The law is bad, nobody said otherwise. But decentralized systems are supposed to be resilient. If the US makes a law banning all mentions of LGBT from social media, which sounds less unlikely by the minute, what will Bluesky do? All of your infrastructure is controlled by one US company…
Your final point is incorrect. Please don't spread misinfo about stuff like that.
Glyph@[email protected] @Gargron wait, what infrastructure is beyond Bluesky Social PBC's control?
A lot? There are independent instances of ATproto infrastructure that are not controlled by Bluesky. There are totally independent PDS's, relays, and appviews.
Folker@[email protected] @glyph @Gargron
Only a tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny fraction of #atproto users is not dependent on #bluesky infrastructure. Basically all #atproto users - and literally all #bluesky users - are dependent on #bluesky and their decisions. That's a simple reality which cannot be taken away by all the tech talk how cool #atproto is in theory.
Only a tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny fraction of #atproto users is not dependent on #bluesky infrastructure. Basically all #atproto users - and literally all #bluesky users - are dependent on #bluesky and their decisions. That's a simple reality which cannot be taken away by all the tech talk how cool #atproto is in theory.
@folkerschamel @[email protected] @Gargron what fraction is this? What software are they using? I would really like to even understand how this *might* work. (the fediverse is also, after all, still relatively centralized in practice, with a substantial majority of users still on mastodon ggmbh infrastructure. But other active independent instances do point a way to a less central future)
ikuturso 🇪🇺@glyph @folkerschamel @[email protected] @Gargron one datapoint is that I believe there's s less than six thousand users on a third party PDS out of the 30+ million registered users total. So roughly 1 out of like 5,000 or 0.02%... For the other services like third party web apps it's almost certainly even worse since you can count them with one hand and they're tiny or just experimentation by some dev. It's just not at all comparable to Mastodon.
edit: revised to more accurate
What you believe and what reality may be are two different things. It's pretty silly to make your arguments based on false info someone told you.
@[email protected] @glyph @folkerschamel @Gargron maybe actually say what you think is disinformation and why? not very convincing when you just accuse people of spreading it without being able to give any specifics.
@[email protected] it would be less infuriating to the outside observer if the Bluesky hype train was more ready to acknowledge the issues and limitations but it feels like all PR all the time. The "nothing to see here" attitude is not helping defuse any misconceptions.
No. What would be less infuriating is if the small group of people who feel that ActivityPub and ATproto were at war (which only one side seems to think) would give it up and focus on building a better overall ecosystem rather than whining about purity all the fucking time.
All @Gargron was doing is to point out that real decentralization matters, and that the #fediverse has solved that problem - descentralized in control and jurisdictions - no single authority could block Mississippi in the #fediverse.
Isn't this a good thing? Are you really sure you disagree with that?
What about learning from that or integrating with that (e.g. via #activitypub) instead of dismissing it?