Via @quillmatiq

#bluesky #atproto

Interesting compare-and-contrast follwoing the FISA reauth here and elsewhere.

There wasn't much in my feed here. When I do a search there are several posts from Politico's Flipboard account -- useful and timely updates, but only one source -- and also a few posts from @dell.bsky.social via Bridgy. But it's still fairly sparse; since I wasn't following the bridged account (oops, I'm following @dell but that doesn't help) and neither was anybody else on my instance most of those posts aren't coming over -- even when I check his profile directly -- and the other specific accounts I rely on for FISA stuff aren't active here and aren't bridging so it's not great.

One key takeaway for me from a fedi perspective: I'm quite possibly very reliant in general on Flipboard and Bridgy Fed for getting US-based political news on fedi, and that means my sources are more limited (and almost certainly a lot less diverse). So on the one hand thanks @quillmatiq @snarfed.org @mike @marci, on the other we clearly have work to do.

There's more information on available Blacksky in my feed, including posts from people like Sen. Wyden and Jake Laperruque from CDT. It's not really an apples-to-oranges comparison becuase Bluesky itself is largely down, revealing some hidden dependencies in other platforms; as a result, several feeds I rely on aren't available, and search is somewhat flaky. Even so, the Blacksky infrastructure is doing well enough that it's more useful in this particular situation than fedi.

So another key takeaway is that decentralization in the Atmosphere is real enough that even in a situation where Bluesky is largely down, I got better results there than here.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/116409387146814121

A massive thanks to @laurenshof for actually attributing FediMod FIRES to me in his coverage. It means a lot to receive credit for my work!

new from me: Fediverse Report #159, with the news:

- The @sovtechfund funds @Mastodon with 600k to work on new features that allows servers to collaborate on things like blocklists and media storage
- @surf has launched as a social webbrowser, with publications like The Verge and Wired already onboard
- @wearenew_public is hosting the Open Social Awards together with @publicspaces for the most promising projects on the new open social protocols

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr159-sovereign-tech-agency-funds-mastodon/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/113449311289500932

2024: "The endgame is not Mastodon, Bluesky, or Threads. The endgame is finding communities on the web and following them all on the best platform for you."

Aging pretty well, honestly. Probably going to age even better as time goes on.