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icy replied

@aw very true! in its current state, 90+% of users are on the main bsky hosted PDSes (although hosting your own PDS is remarkably simple for a technical user).

i think the medium/long-term goal, as stated by the team, is to enable future alternatives to the existing bsky.social. in the event the company goes rogue/dies/whatever, users should be able to click one button to move elsewhere.

but yeah, i'm just happy there are alternative takes on decentralized social media.

icy replied

@aw feel free to ignore if you don't wish to engage, but i don't believe that's a fair take. it's outwardly "over engineered" because the problem is inherently complex—and it's pretty sound engineering under the hood.

for instance, the ability to move between PDSes, the extensible lexicon, composable moderation (blocklists are built into the protocol!) etc. all while maintaining mom-comprehensible UX is pretty commendable. and unfortunately, we can't really say the same about Mastodon (let alone the wider fedi).

icy replied

And really, the far-right isn't generally vegan at all. They disregard any claims that cows are treated poorly and don't believe the dairy industry is problematic.

A sad state of affairs in general.

icy posted

It's rather sad that veganism in India is overshadowed by purity politics (Hindu nationalism and its association with vegetarianism). The far-left rhetoric is largely anti-vegan, often brandishing the "privilege" defense and "what about the lower class that cannot afford it", or worse still, "factory farming isn't as big of a problem here".