Jim @sullybiker@sully.site
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It's funny seeing all the drama at BlueSky about blocklists, because those people learnt the hard way this is not the safety utopia one thinks it is.
Don't judge them though, because exactly the same thing happened here, when a whole fucking bunch of users decided that what a community needed was lots of policing, and they behaved accordingly.
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Consider the possibility that they were never coming here
I'm not so convinced that a lack of safety features or quote posts or whatever is what drives people away.
Decentralization is less user-friendly, DIY/open source is also less user-friendly. We're dealing with people raised on apps who want a definitive, single, unified experience. And any "jankiness" in the experience becomes a quick, justified trip to 'uninstall the app.'
The thing is, Bluesky shares your block list publicly, a HUGE user safety issue, and so I think if people really cared about user safety issues, they'd not be on Bluesky.
So why are people actually there?
They are on Bluesky because it's the alternative to Twitter for most people who want a simple, unified (centralized) experience.
Oh, onboarding along with a prebuilt list of follows? Yes, I'll take that.
I can see the appeal.
Meanwhile, on the fedi, you start with NO home feed at all and have to find people or hashtags to fill it.
So you do some searches, you find like 20 people and you think that's good enough to get started. And then you wonder why you're not really seeing many posts, or why the feed seems so slow and it's because the 20 people you followed aren't high-volume shitposters, also they are in a different timezone, etc.
And there's no other "you might like these posts" algorithm kinda thing going on, and there's little onboarding to speak of at all.
Finding "your people" is a bit harder, etc.
@claudiom Sounds like a great time!
@Binder They had a lot of focus groups and testing to achieve this.
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VDLM2 Message From: N381HA / HA0021
Message: ON CLIMB OUT BASE 16K TOPS 26K OCC LIGHT CHOP ON CLIMB SMOOTH ABOVE 280 HQM
@tayfonay Modern life is rubbish
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TIL: https://ladybird.org a truely independent browser built by engineers not motivated by data driven revenue. DNSSEC, DANE, no shady CA list, etc. Theyvare always looking for help. #Browser
My youngest son decided to spend his pocket money on a bargain table book of dad jokes at Barnes & Noble. I did not know of this development. He ran into the living clutching it and shouted
"BAD NEWS DAD. NOW I HAVE *ALL* THE JOKES"
@wyliecoyoteuk Don't step outside, a piano may fall on you!
@Alice The alt text on these merely proves he married well
@vaartis What an odd strategy to try and force engagement!
@LifeTimeCooking The odd thing is it did not always smell, but some mornings it was like walking into a fish'n'chip shop on a cold day. Just lovely.
@vaartis That might be fake
Hmm
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says X rival is 'billionaire proof' https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-says-x-rival-is-billionaire-proof.html
This is a machine I cloned out of prod and onto a private dev network, never had an issue with it breaking snap before.
Upgrading an Ubuntu server with do-release-upgrade and snap doesn't pick up web proxy by default? Come on, canonical.
@HikerGeek@mas.to It's a speed trap. They have a laser speed measurement camera with a telephoto optic. They have to get a reasonable image of the driver in case the ticket is disputed, but I don't think it's enough for facial recognition.
Similar to when Steven Toast uses 'Royce Coolidge' to check into a hotel, I keep registering VMs on our network then can't remember what I called them
3wks ago, on the M25 on the way to Dorset, a Camera Van perches on a flyover. One thing I definitely don't miss about the UK. #travel
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