With X Blocked, Brazilians Find New Homes for Their Thoughts
With X Blocked, Brazilians Find New Homes for Their Thoughts
The platform went dark across Brazil on Saturday, sending online commentators to new digital town squares.
The big one seems to be BlueSky
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Bluesky should stop pushing their own protocol and adopt ActivityPub and the Fediverse. They really don't offer anything that Mastodon or even Threads already have. It's another centralized mess in the making.
Composable moderation/custom labeling and custom algorithmic feeds are two things that Mastodon doesn't have that Bluesky does.
And account portability, I believe.
(goose.jpg) portability to where?
I'm a bsky fanboy normally but this is not a benefit. The functional part of bluesky is centralized. But they're open source and an open protocol so technically anyone can build a replacement
Reddit also was open source, until it wasn’t.
Reddit was just a crappy website that a 10 year old could string to
This is informative on the differences between the ActivityPub any AT protocols: https://youtu.be/-R9CWq5CBlk?si=BzW7c5U0WXH8VxrO
The intro explains some history and things which ppl here probably already know, but overall I find it provides a pretty good analysis of the current social media landscape, and these two protocols in particular.