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psychothumbs OP ,

Yes that's right

psychothumbs OP ,

I believe the idea is that they're not federating with any other existing site, they're creating a new variety of federation with themselves as the first member, with people being able to set themselves up as additional independent nodes in that federation.

psychothumbs ,

I'm still just so furious at Signal management for removing compatibility with other text apps. I used to be constantly growing my Signal network, now it's a slowly shrinking rump that I never add anyone to.

psychothumbs ,

Right, the idea was that you could use Signal as your SMS app, and so whenever there was someone else doing the same you'd automatically upgrade to Signal. Whereas now I never have those auto-upgrades, any new contact I am just stuck on SMS with.

psychothumbs ,

In my opinion, relying on upgrading users automagically to an encrypted and secure protocol isn’t good practice. If someone wants to use an encrypted chat, they should do so consciously. It will only cause confusion otherwise.

This is my theory for why they ditched this feature - the ultra-concerned about privacy superusers don't approve of its messiness, even though in practice it's the main engine for user growth.

Do people still use SMS these days though anyway?

I would have thought iMessage, RCS and separate chat apps like Whatsapp, Signal and WeChat would have largely replaced SMS by now.

SMS, MMS, iMessage and RCS are all compatible with each other and mostly used interchangeably and are the main way people text each other (in the US anyway). You just have a phone number, and when people text it with any of those formats you receive the message and respond the same way.

psychothumbs ,

I would never pay to purchase a digital copy of a show. Either get physical media or pirate it. Anything else is just a long term rental.

psychothumbs OP ,

It's in sort of a weird intermediate space - it does have a federated protocol, but currently the main bluesky server is the only thing on it.

psychothumbs OP ,

Meaning Jack Dorsey? He had some involvement in starting bluesky but is more pushing his own "nostr" site, and has had a hilarious arc of being ever more hostile to bluesky and its left-leaning userbase.

psychothumbs OP ,

It seems like the people running it are pretty ideologically committed to the federation concept, I'd be surprised if it was never implemented. They seem to hope it will resolve some of the moderation problems that plagued twitter.

psychothumbs OP ,

I do not know the answer, source of the info is here if you or anyone want to look more into it: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

psychothumbs OP ,

Is that so? I haven't heard anything about registrations only be open in certain countries.

psychothumbs OP ,

Ah bummer, that is annoying.

psychothumbs OP ,

And then onward to the extraterrestrial market!

psychothumbs OP , (edited )

What is bluesky? Basically a twitter clone that was spun off as it's own thing by the twitter team that was working on federation when Musk took over. It's pretty good if you liked the pre-Musk twitter vibe or a slightly smaller scale and leftier version of it.

https://bsky.app/

psychothumbs OP ,

Lol so petty

psychothumbs OP ,

That's the beauty of it already being a thriving forum before opening up to the public, there's a lot of ongoing content beyond people logging on and saying hi for the first time.

psychothumbs ,

This is why companies should be run by their workers. Even places that start out with a good culture get taken over by the business school blob whose only job is to get promoted and loot the company.

Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built (www.usatoday.com)

Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY's analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.

psychothumbs ,

Awful, we really need some kind of federal fast track for these sorts of badly needed projects that cuts through the NIMBY bullshit.

psychothumbs ,

Fantastic. Remember guys, we're all on the same side on this one. This should be a signal for the US to get its ass in gear to do the same, but it's not like China expanding its renewable energy capacity is anything but great for everyone.

psychothumbs ,

Yeah hard to imagine Musk's new right wing fanbase being willing to buy electric cars even if they're made by him.

psychothumbs ,

And it's a disaster in Canada. The only reason the Conservatives ever take power up there is because of the giant vote split between NDP and the Liberals. Look how the conservatives are heavy favorites to win their next election despite every poll showing them with less than the combined votes of the Liberals and NDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_45th_Canadian_federal_election

psychothumbs ,

Yes I definitely assume that. Maybe not every single person since who knows what goes on in people's heads, but generally we should expect the voters for the two left of center parties to prefer the other left of center one to the right wing one. Particularly since presumably if there was a single party representing those voters it would probably be somewhere in between them ideology-wise.

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