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OpenAI is so lagging behind in terms of image generation it is comical at this point.
They dropped a new image model last week using 4o to contextualize the request, it's very very good. However it's for paid subscribers only right now I believe.
However as you mentioned Stable diffusion and mid journey probably still have more customizability.
Again, I'm hoping to see alternative server instances of all the Bluesky services available for utilization by the public
What purpose does it serve for a dev to recreate a brand new app view right now? Yes there's getting away from centralization but is that enough to encourage someone to build something from the ground up? Right now it's only devs tinkering.
If Bluesky introduced 5 ads per post tomorrow. You can bet your ass there's going to be a new app backfilled with historical data within a month. But right now there's zero incentive since they've already solved the major problems of Twitter and Mastodon.
The relay is probably a bit more important for decentralization, but it's not particularly hard to load up a relay within a days work as the guy in the above response has shown. The white wind app also pulls directly from PDS' avoiding the need to use a relay at all.
If you have the data and the code you are in the effectively decentralized since anyone can effectively recreate your platform in a few days. Regardless I'm sure BlueSky will make a decision at some point that will entice someone enough to publish a separate appview. Think about how long Lemmy has been around and it's barely starting to see separate platforms take off more like mbin and piefed. Yeah kbin was around 2 years ago and piefed was very early but it takes a long time for these platforms to grow and mature, we can't just expect them to exist overnight when BlueSky has been fully public for what barely a year?
On xiaohongshu before the translate feature people would write in both languages for ease of translation and so the other side wouldn't have to translate it themselves.
That's probably the best situation especially when we don't have text limits.
It was however hilarious watching everyone find out in realtime just how bad Google translator is for Chinese and literally everyone having to swap to GPT or DeepL.
Guy looks exactly as you'd expect him to.
You're in a meme subreddit just put the meme in the bag
What the fuck?
Not sure if an absolute list, but https://atprotocol.dev/ is a good resource.
I think the problem is there isn't much incentive to run a relay in particular, as it all funnels into the same place, but if you're questioning the tech this guy did it a few days ago with the relay
https://whtwnd.com/futur.blue/3lkubavdilf2m
It looks like ^ he also has an appview up thats long form blogging here: https://github.com/whtwnd/whitewind-blog
Another guy also built a lightweight app view
https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lkwg2djrfk23
And stream.place is another appview but it's not a microblog platform. Also very early stages I believe.
Claiming it's a central authority when anyone can run a relay is a little disingenuous.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing though, it removed the complexity behind instances and federation which is primarily the reason mastodon didn't see mass adoption.
China "open sources" a lot of their technologies. They treat it as a form of competition, we'll show you how to do x but you show us how to do u and whoever is better at both wins out, there's a lot of short videos on how BYD taught other Chinese EV manufacturers and even Ford how their automated manufacturing plants work. The end result, everything becomes a highly optimized process. Glad to see they're also adopting this framework with open sourcing AI development.
This is also a reason why there's a hugeee cultural clash with US IP theft.
Boycotts are a hell a lot more efficient than fanfare parades though.