@hedy oh, good to know! Don't think I'll add it to my list of sites to check, lol—too many at this point.

@fleeky @cwebber @nemobis @bnewbold I suppose one way to look at it would be if Bluesky PBC goes rogue, a group of volunteers/some other non-profit org can stand up a "Newsky" (if you will) and your PDS can can work with that.

@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.

@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).

@aworldinpages it's also gross because who eats without brushing first?

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.