Well! Look what #Twitter founder and #Bluesky / #Nostr co-founder Jack #Dorsey just gave $10m to...
'The team at “and Other Stuff” is also working on a social media “Bill of Rights”…which spells out what social media platforms need to provide in areas like #privacy, #security, #interoperability, #transparency, #identity, self-governance, and #portability.' #DMA #DMCCA
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/jack-dorsey-pumps-10m-into-a-nonprofit-focused-on-open-source-social-media/
'The group originally met through collaborating on #Nostr, an open, “apolitical” social networking protocol that has been receiving the bulk of #Dorsey’s attention since #Twitter’s sale to Elon #Musk and his stepping down from social network #Bluesky’s board. However, the team will experiment with other tools, too, like #ActivityPub'
From: @joanpla
https://mastodon.social/@joanpla/114869406168784743
OK Fedi-hive-mind… am I missing out here due to using a ridiculously outdated app, or is this what linked BlueSky posts look like to everyone: just a hyperlinked URL? If this is what it is for everyone here; is this because BlueSky isn’t playing nice, or because Mastodon development isn’t keeping up?
@feditips
About #WeTransfer, #BendingSpoons and #BlueSky. No BlueSky is not owned by Bending Spoons, but is a for-profit corporation financed by venture capital. It's not that far away from Bending Spoons' business model.
Preaching to the choir here, I know. So if you are on BlueSky, tell everyone complaining about WeTransfer about BlueSky as well.
#Bluesky reminds me of Patrick Bateman.
@jomla I agree that at #DHd2025, #Mastodon worked great. Similarly at #CHR2024 last year. It is more quite here at #DH2025, clearly. But I hear that #Bluesky is not all that intense either, apparently? (Maybe only in the first few days.) I think #Whova takes some of the social media / microblogging energy away from the open social media, which is a pity.
Interesting in how at #Dhd2025, #fediverse was by far the network with more activity, while at #DH2025 it feels that #Bluesky dominates as the primary network. Adds up to my impression that the #fediverse is predominantly used in the DACH area #DigitalHumanities, while everyone else uses bsky. Don't really get it for obvious reasons but don't want to start yet another fedi-vs-bsky discussion.
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Does the TurtleIsland.social #Mastodon or TurtleIs.land #Bluesky PDS even have any under 18 or UK users?
Obviously, we can't control other servers on either platform. It's difficult for me to imagine complying with this (for no reason) without it being baked into Mastodon or Bluesky software...
What do you think?
Quitter Twitter pour Bluesky ? Mauvaise question ! Voire question piège.
J’ai plus ou moins laissé tomber Twitter (ou « X », si vous préférez) et #Bluesky est devenu mon réseau social principal. Est-ce que je vous recommande de quitter #Twitter pour Bluesky ? En fait, ce n’est pas la question.
Parce qu’on risque de s’enfermer dans un faux dilemme et de se laisser piéger par un sophisme de la solution parfaite.
#STRANGERTHINGS5 Dévoile son ULTIME Bande annonce !
https://a7productions.blogspot.com/p/7-radio-100-mix.html
Du feu, des pleurs, une bande de potes, un ennemi avec une armée de Demongorgons ! La fin d'une histoire qui nous aura fait vibrer durant 9 ans !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkuQOsOYQyU
I've been following ATProto's development from the sidelines since 2022, but I somehow missed this great take by @eloquence on Bluesky interoperability with Mastodon and ActivityPub: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1716
"We currently have two emerging alternatives to X that deserve to be taken seriously: the fediverse and BlueSky. The fediverse tends to attract folks who highly value open source in principle and practice; BlueSky tends to attract folks who are looking for a drop-in Twitter replacement.
In this context, I would argue that a clear commitment from the key parties (that includes @Gargron's Mastodon gGmbH and Bluesky the company) towards an interoperable social web is essential. We should be able to follow each other no matter where we decide to make our social media home. Even Mark Zuckerberg's Threads has at least made a commitment towards interoperability."
It's a good read. Year after year, it feels like ATProto and ActivityPub, Bluesky and Mastodon, couldn't be further apart. Even Nostr and WordPress support ActivityPub. We're seeing more servers and clients in the Fediverse adopting ActivityPub. As far as I know, 99% of ATProto is still powered by Bluesky's main server, which makes it not very decentralized. I wonder why anyone would want to set up a server for ATProto when ActivityPub is so much more widely used.
I see Bluesky and ATProto's future as just another private company, like the rest. It's easy to pretend decentralization and open source just for marketing.
Feature-wise, Bluesky feels like a cheap, dated version of Mastodon. It still has no edit option, no content warnings, and is stuck with a 300-character limit.
The official account of the #50501movement on Insta is saying they will have to use #Bluesky because #Zuck is doing so much so suppress their content.
I have heard this from a number of resistance accounts I follow. Let there be no doubt that the protests matter! Zuck and Musk and pro-fash corporate media would not try to suppress those efforts if they were irrelevant.
He does NOT want you to see this stuff, and that's why I share it.
But now I have to have a Bluesky account. Oh well.
Did you know you can bridge between #Mastodon and #Bluesky?
Follow bluesky users from mastodon even though you're not on Bluesky?
And they can follow you even though they're not on Mastodon?
Great @lifehacker article on it here:
https://lifehacker.com/tech/use-bridgy-feed-to-link-mastodon-and-bluesky