I don’t understand the purpose of the letter.
Bluesky is, in practice, not decentralized.
It has the potential to decentralize, but if the community stops calling bullshit when Bluesky claims to already be decentralized, it would lose the one incentive it has to actually follow through.
13.5%, slipping to about 12%
I know that 1.5% could mean hundreds of businesses, but this still seems like such a nothing burger.
I wouldn’t mind going back to IRC roots if it could be made more user friendly and integrate voice and video chat.
Good UX/UI goes a long way to make it so non-technical people can join and strengthen the network.
Damn. That sucks. (Edit: Referring to the comments saying Matrix is dead and dying.)
I get that IRC and XMPP are more stable and built around federation from the ground up, but… they’re not Discord replacements.
That was IMHO, the point of Matrix/Element.
Tell me if I’m wrong, but a significant part of a network’s resilience is the number of nodes and users.
Without a glowup or some kind of repackaging, IRC/XMPP are doomed to stay niche.
I smell survivorship bias.
I have a 20% hit rate on this (literally 1 out of 5). It was okay; we caught up, chatted for a couple of weeks and then realized there wasn’t much left to go on.
If I could do it all over again, I wouldn’t.
I use the deck’s battery as a poopsocking feature.
Battery runs out? I’m done for the day.
Unfortunately(?) some indies are so optimized I can play for hours and only run the battery down halfway.
You asked a legitimate question, and I provided three sources describing the phenomenon.
Just because you haven’t experienced it personally (or met people who have) doesn’t mean it’s not real, either.
Plenty of people haven’t met a gay or trans person in their life, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t exist or that issues they face should be dismissed out of hand.
Dismissing the question doesn’t add to the conversation. If you don’t want to engage with the question, that’s fine. Don’t comment. Just downvote and move on.
Blue Bubbles vs Green Bubbles: Explained!
The “Blue” vs. “Green” Bubble War is Insane.
Grace Fang, 20-years-old, said she too saw such social dynamics among her peers at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. “I’ve had people with Androids apologize that they have Androids and don’t have iMessage,” she said. “I don’t know if it’s Apple propaganda or just like a tribal in-group versus out-group thing going on, but people don’t seem to like green text bubbles that much and seem to have this visceral negative reaction to it.” Ms. Fang added that she finds the hubbub silly and that she prefers to avoid texting all together.
‘I’ve had people with Androids apologize that they have Androids and don’t have iMessage,” said Grace Fang.
Jocelyn Maher, a 24-year-old master’s student in upstate New York, said her friends and younger sister have mocked her for exchanging texts with potential paramours using Android phones. “I was like,
Oh my gosh, his texts are green,’ and my sister literally went,Ew that’s gross,’” Ms. Maher said.She noted that she once successfully persuaded a boyfriend to switch to an iPhone after some gentle badgering. Their relationship didn’t last.
Such interactions have made fertile ground for memes on social media. During the pandemic, Jeremy Cangiano, who just finished up his MBA at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, dealt with his boredom on TikTok, quickly noticing that blue-bubble-green-bubble memes were popular among young people. He tried to cash in on it last year by selling his own merchandise that touted, “Never Date a Green Texter.”
I suddenly want to see a slav who tries to squat but fails. Like, do you get your citizenship revoked?
If pliers didn’t do the job, I would cut them at the base and sand them down to be smooth and flush with the wood.
I actually like that the right word is as basic as poser.
They’d like to have a special name, but they’re literally just a bog-standard poser.
Did they fix the whole Unheard Edition issue or nah?
My guess is it’s the tone/wording that implies that OP doesn’t think it’s great.
I agree that it’s a legit question, though.
So cool of ConcernedApe to collab with smaller, independent creators in the cozy space!
Pass the joint and lemme lemmy have a look at it.
So we’re either Team comfort+able or Team comfor+table?
I’m reading this as “be nice to the Bluesky guys, because we have a bigger problem to deal with.”
That’s fine, I’m not inclined to be mentally ill at strangers on the internet.
But I’m also not going to call it decentralized when it’s meaningfully not, and I’m going to keep an eye on where their money comes from.
We have a common enemy in government control.
But if you’re going to be my friend, I need you to not lie to my face.