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@xnx to each their own.

The anarchist in me doesn’t feel right having a corporate overlord who can :yeet: me from existence whenever they choose.🤷‍♂️

That’s not important to everyone and that’s fine. We are all different.

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@xnx well, it doesn’t really matter their reasoning when the end result is the same.

It won’t become truly decentralized with these things in the way.

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@xnx yes! I mistyped.🫣

It’s frontpage.fyi

Sorry!😅

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@blue_berry TBH I think our biggest strength here is decentralization, but every day we’re inching closer and closer to centralization here in many ways and most don’t care.

Mastodon controls how 73% of users interact with Fediverse. Threads, if it fully federates will completely take that over, but then we have 2 corporate entities in charge here and there’s nothing any of us are doing about it.

They will be able to enact change in AP that most other softwares can’t and effectively completely change Fedi as we know it.

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@mark thank you for the compliment and assurance friend.

I am always self conscious about my long winded replies because sometimes even I wouldn’t wanna read a post that long.

Though, with topics like this that I’m very passionate about, I feel it’s very important to lay out all the information and knowledge I have so that others can make informed decisions themselves based on the most important details.

I discuss Fediverse and networks like it, literally constantly and there’s LOTS of nuances with these systems that need lots of explanations.

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@Drunemeton you’re welcome, and thank you for the reassurance, friend.🫡

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@Blaze no problem, friend.

I always worry if my long winded answers make sense to neurotypical people as I’m ADHD and slightly autistic.😅

So I hope it does make sense, at least even partially.

Overall, they’re mostly centralized because there’s *very* few relays and they’re required infrastructure, but decentralized in other ways, which may or may not matter in the bigger picture because of this previous information.

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@tengkuizdihar well, it’s not difficult to federate, it’s difficult to seperate your identity from BlueSky itself, if you’re trying to create something on ATproto.

I doubt you’ll see big news about a service using ATproto, the way Fedi platforms do, besides BlueSky because they really don’t want you to differentiate that way.🤦‍♂️

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@Blaze

Long winded, nuanced answer, ready your eyeballs:

It’s a bit complicated, but since we’re on Fediverse and at least somewhat familiar with how things work here, I’ll try to explain with that comparison in mind.

On Fediverse, instances are in control of the user data directly. To “migrate” your account, you’d be switching instances and admins entirely.

BlueSky splits things up quite a bit more.

There, you can host your own “PDS” or Personal Data Server. That hosts your account and post info only.

Then, there’s the “AppView”. In comparison to Fediverse, these are like Lemmy, Mastodon, Mbin, etc. Right now, there’s VERY few Appviews to choose from.

Then, there’s the “relay”. Which to Fediverse, the only thing similar is also relays, but they work differently. On BlueSky, they relay every post and interactions of all the PDS data that connect to AppViews. I do not think there’s a choice on *what* is relayed, just a huge firehose. That being said, they’re not optional like Fediverse. To complete the network, relays are required on ATProto and apparently could be expensive to host, so right now, it appears the only relay is hosted by BlueSky the company. Which makes things slightly centralized.

Now, that we have those definitions out of the way, this is where things get a bit muddy and a bit of purposeful corporate created confusion for purpose of selfishness is quite apparent.

Right now, there’s very few AppViews. The ones I’m aware of are, BlueSky itself, Whitewind, and Frontpage.xyz.

The confusion happens because BlueSky, the company, doesn’t separate the fact that accounts hosted on self-hosted PDS, aren’t technically Bluesky accounts, they’re ATproto accounts. Everywhere you look to login, it says “login using your BlueSky account”. I can only assume they’re doing this on purpose so that anyone who tries to make an Appview, host a PDS, AND a relay, can’t have their own “identity” like different instances and platforms have here on Fedi.

That will confuse people and make them think *everything* is just hosted by BlueSky the company. However, as we’ve now established, there’s definitely a separation of “Bluesky” the company, “BlueSky” the AppView that you can login to using your “BlueSky” account, which doesnt technically have to be hosted by anything related to BlueSky.

I hope this all makes sense and you can tell that *technically* things are decentralized for the most part. It’s just that BlueSky is purposefully muddying their own definitions of things so that anyone that tries to build on ATproto, has a hard time making themselves known as *not* bluesky due to the way they conflate all these definitions.

Sorry for the huge post and hope it makes sense in some way.

Thanks for reading.😁👍

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@Lost_My_Mind yeah, just reporting.

I want to do the actual judgement, but if I don’t know the post exists, I can’t judge anything and it makes me so mad that possible racist stuff can exist on my instance without my knowledge because I havent “seen” it.

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@cm0002 no, I want automated reports.

A user using the n word, full on with the hard R, isn’t gonna be a good post. It should be automatically reported to me so that I can judge context and take action.

If a user doesn’t report it, I won’t see it.

I’m on my own instance, I am the user.

If I don’t report it, nobody sees it.

That’s dumb.

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@AterNox @dch82 doesn’t exist for admins. It works on a “user” level. But that won’t remove the post or data from the instance, it just “hides” it so the single user can’t see.

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@AterNox @dch82 blocking and reporting work fine.

However, people from corporate social media won’t report posts because in their experience, it either doesn’t get taken seriously or the admins ignore it. Corporate social media sites don’t exactly act on reports in a timely manner.

I’m on my own instance, I moderate for myself. I don’t want slurs to exist on my instance at all. However, if I don’t see them with my own eyes, I cannot ban the user.

PS. I’m talking about banning users that are harassing others on the instance level. These are user actions. I am an admin. I run my own instance.

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@dch82 first, “normies” have to not get harassed when they come here.

Unfortunately the biggest Fedi software refuses to add automated reporting of offensive posts so if it’s not reported, the admins won’t even see it.

People coming from corporate social media are used to ignoring the report button because in their experience, it either doesn’t work, or gets ignored by admins anyway.

We need automated reporting.

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@Aatube great. I’m just seeing this because on Mastodon, for a user to get notified, you have to add their username in the body of the post.👍

Thanks for updating me.

@debounced Well, that’s great! However, that still doesn’t quell my concerns regarding Melroy’s offer to the transphobe. He IS the creator, though it is good ya’ll have a group, it still concerns me that someone so prominent with the project would associate themselves with such people.

I have many trans friends and I cannot, in good conscience, recommend the project until it’s addressed.😬 😔

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@HubertManne
Well…this is not a company. However, after reviewing the github. It does seem like there’s at least one more who can approve merges
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@HubertManne pretty sure that’s how every project works in terms of merge requests…no? Even mastodon can only have merges approved by Eugen Rothko.🤷‍♂️

@HubertManne but if he has the merging powers, it doesn’t matter because the buck stops with him on what’s implemented.

@HubertManne he created the fork. So therefore, he’s the creator and the one who holds the merging power.