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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Twitter has shown that there is an audience for companies (and apparently presidents) engaging via public social media.
    Corporations rely on algorithms to get attention on their eyes, and it’s especially convenient to have everyone on the internet on a ‘central hub’, where you can make sure the most people have a chance to get hooked on what you do (this is also the case for smaller creators like digital artists)
    as Twitter proves unreliable I imagine corporations as well as smaller freelancers will work to give Meta’s alternative some legitimacy in the public’s eyes so that they’re not shit out of luck
    Though Meta’s bleeding money as it is, they might not be the horse worth betting on anyway.







  • 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.
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    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.