Including Threads with Fediverse might have an interesting impact.
adding Threads's 400M users changes the ActivityPub fediverse centralized market share to 99.72%, beyond that of BlueSky's share of 99.55%.
Readit Newsnotthemessiah commented on Are we decentralized yet? arewedecentralizedyet.onl... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
notthemessiah commented on Are we decentralized yet? arewedecentralizedyet.onl... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
The federal part doesn't actually work in practice. It's just a marketing gimmick.
This is factually wrong, and disproven by the fact there are now fully independent federated instances such as BlackSky and soon to be NorthSky. Furthermore, they have independent codebases which are fully compatible. Compare to ActivityPub where most instances are just running Mastodon or some close fork or risk breaking compatibility. What's the point of federation if you are stuck with a monoculture of implementations?
The main BlueSky services are still by far the most popular, which is why we see centralization on the network.
notthemessiah commented on ICE uses celebrity loophole to hide deportation flights jacobin.com/2025/08/ice-u... · Posted by u/JKCalhoun
This is one of the worst written articles I've read in a while. It feels like a confused jumble of the authors personal grievances, clambering over each other trying to be heard. It's repetitive and mixes facts and opinion. I read through half the article before it got to discussing the point and even then I still have no clue what the author is talking about. Is it ICE? Is it evil celebrities? Is it the sinister Jet Lobby? Or is it something else entirely?
Do you have any specific criticism? Or are you just bloviating?
notthemessiah commented on When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army jackpoulson.substack.com/... · Posted by u/OgsyedIE
The left used to be more individualist in the U.S. (circa 90s most definitely) but it developed a toxic groupthink as it came to dominate pop culture and media in the 00s and 10s, and began to leverage that to employ censorship, deplatforming, doxxing, etc and it became incredibly dogmatic and if anyone diverged from a particular narrative (ie skeptical covid came from wet market), they would be ridiculed, shouted down, laughed off, shamed, kicked off social media platforms, ostracized, etc which is cult like behavior.
The left of the 90s would have never stood for that. They were the die hards for free speech then. Something shifted.
Individualism has been failing Americans, while the quality of life has improved dramatically in less individualist cultures, in many ways surpassing Americans (health care, housing, education, upward mobility, etc), so it shouldn't be surprising that collectivism is starting to win mindshare.
Don't fool yourself, conspiracy theories are usually marginalized in US culture, the left didn't welcome conspiracy theories back then either.
Also, now that political correctness and censorship mostly coming from the right again (with the Moral Majority going after music then, and video games/porn now), we now see the civil libertarian elements of the left standing up to fight censorship once again.
Good
How are payment processors gatekeeping free speech good? You probably also thought it was good when Visa and Mastercard stopped payments to investigative journalists who were publishing classified materials.
@steamdb.info:
Steam has added a new rule disallowing games that violate the rules and standards set forth by payment processors and card networks, or internet network providers.
This is possibly related to PayPal because people in certain regions have not been able to use it to pay on Steam for the past five days.
At the same time, many incest themed games were removed from the store.
You thought wrong. SF gave out free syringes and created laws that were empathetic to robbers and thieves.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/san-francisco-sign-stolen-...
> SF ... created laws that were empathetic to robbers and thieves.
You're right in that SF does way too much to accommodate robber barons, tech moguls, heavily-subsidized Silicon Valley industries, and housing speculators.
prop 47 and free syringes.
The housing crisis extends across the bay area and SF is noticeably shittier then most places int he bay area. So it's likely not the housing crisis that is the reason why SF is particularly bad.
San Francisco doesn't even have free Narcan, which many US cities do. And of course syringes will flood the streets when you don't have safe injection sites. SF needs to learn from Portugal on how to address the drug crises. Also, it just needs to build denser to accommodate housing demand.
This happened to me with julialang.social which just stopped running after the guy hired to host it was poached by Google and he lost all interest in the Julia language community. Lost everything. Not going to look back at activitypub as ATProto is the future for me.