At the very least, we’d need tech companies to stop encouraging plagiarism.

Artists should be able to share their work without fear of being plagiarized.

Do you live in Western Europe?

I do because it currently doesn’t have ads

I like the idea but I don’t think that will counteract the gross environmental damage that his data centers cause.

I didn’t know you could do this.

Amazing lol

By the way, Whitewind requires you to accept their privacy policy just to read a blog post.

You can use this website to bypass it.

Here is a link for the blog post you just cited.

That is by design. From a user’s perspective, the only indication that Bluesky is decentralized federated is the option to select a different “hosting provider” when logging in.

I think it’s reasonable to assume that when OP asked about “joining” each platform, they wanted to use each platform natively.

No. For each Mastodon, Lemmy, or Peertube server you want to join, you need a separate account on the server.

There’s way more to Wafrn than that, and it’s extremely interesting.

You can treat Wafrn like an independent ATProto platform (like Blacksky). It has its own PDS and AppView (which uses Blacksky’s Relay), so it’s not at all dependent on Bluesky for obtaining posts (assuming those posts are also published on an independent PDS).

What’s unique is that Wafrn is actually ActivityPub-first, meaning it doesn’t have any issue interacting with Mastodon users, but doesn’t have all the same features of a normal ATProto platform. For example must have your account on Wafrn in order to use it (as opposed to blacksky.community, which lets you sign in with an existing account on another ATProto platform); you can, however, sign into bsky.app (or blacksky) with an account created on Wafrn.

Fediverse Reports regularly talks about updates with ATProto, and I found this blog post mentioned in another blog post from WeDistribute.

The most interesting development as of late is the progress of Blacksky. It is the first major attempt at creating an independent “Bluesky Instance”–where in that it’s functionally the same as Bluesky but doesn’t rely on any of Bluesky’s infrastructure.

There is also Wafrn, which is really hard to explain. @gabboman@app.wafrn.net is in this thread somewhere and will have to explain it.

ideally they would close signups and suggest people signup on alternatives instead

Is that what you would actually expect Bluesky to do if they were committed to decentralization?

Why is there a picture of Chappell Roan?

I’d like to see what the metrics for the Fediverse would look like if it included federated Threads users.

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Google really seems to want to disincentivize people paying for YouTube Premium rather than just downloading an ad blocker.

The tradeoffs Bluesky made to achieve that means that Bluesky doesn’t have private posts. In fact, Bluesky doesn’t have private blocks.

It’s two way bridging. The issue is that Bluesky users also must opt-in to having their posts be bridged to Mastodon (by following @ap.brid.gy).

I actually still don’t understand why one would be in favor of federation but opposed to bridging. In esscence, bridging is just federation.