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Bluesky Social ๐ฆ
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Bluesky is a federated social network built on ATProtocol.
Rules:
- Follow lemmy.zip's site-wide rules.
- All posts must, in some way, relate to Bluesky or ATProto.
- Do not make duplicate posts.
- Do not post x.com links.
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News, discussion, and memes are all allowed here.
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- !peoplebluesky@lemmy.world - for screenshots of Bluesky posts
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Ah yes, let's take absolute control over online discourse from one private, for-profit organization and give it to another. That'll fix everything!
While Bluesky seems [mostly] fine right now, it's not a long term solution. We need public online spaces that aren't owned or governed by any single entity. Or more appropriately - we need to improve the ones we already have and do whatever we can to bring people here.
Also, Bluesky has terrible algorithms and gives almost no control over your main page. I kept seeing exclusively political content from one specific side in my country (including some very obvious bots). Pressing 'Show less like this' on a few dozen posts every day produced no results over a few weeks. This ultimately led me to delete my account, as it made no sense to browse a platform that is actively showing me only the things that I don't want to see.
Wafrn is an app that natively federates with Bluesky. It uses it's own PDS and Appview, and relies on Blacksky's Relay (which is operated independantly, not by Bluesky PBLLC). Wafrn also supports ActivityPub and federates with Mastodon instances without Bridging (as it's actually ActivityPub-first).