It Takes Two is such a fun game to play with a friend. Highly recommended.

And I answered it? There are multiple wealthy people involved. Do you expect the full name, address, and social security number of every individual? I don’t care to do all that research for you. My point still stands, Bluesky’s devs are in debt (via investments) to wealthy people who will want to extract value (money) from it. Enshittification is inevitable.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/bluesky-raises-15m-series-a-plans-to-launch-subscriptions

They’ve invested millions and they wouldn’t unless they expected a significant return. The only way to get a return on a social media investment is either ads or subscriptions via enshittifying it just enough to get people to pay. bluesky is destined to be trash.

OP has posted (and re-posted) about Bluesky about 40 times in the last 48 hours. I’m down voting every single one. Quit shilling for billionaires.

Would really suck if people said “fuck it”, did return to work but intentionally decreased productivity. Best to get laid off than quit.

Localsend is great!

If you need something that works with just a web browser, try wormhole.app

If wormhole is blocked or not working, use any ‘Send’^{(github.com↗)} instance, which is a fork^{(github.com↗)} of Mozilla’s Firefox Send^{(github.com↗)}.

• Signal ^{signal.org↗} - Free, open source, completely end-to-end encrypted messaging that lead by a non-profit.
• Shelter ^{f-droid.org↗} - Use Android’s built-in “Work Profile” feature to install or clone apps into an isolated space.
• Simplex ^{f-droid.org↗} - Like Signal but for the more paranoid. Not as good from a UX perspective so I can’t recommend it to everyone, but definitely just as good if privacy/security is your ultimate requirement.

You’d be correct. This is why median gives you a better representation of a general population. Averages can easily be distorted.

Jack doesn’t own bluesky but he is on the board [0] and even working for a public benefit company, is supposed to [1]:

… operate the business with the same authority and behavior as in a traditional corporation

It does go on to state they’re required to consider the impact of their decisions not only for shareholders but also employees, customers, community, etc, but there’s no mechanism that forces them to do “the right thing”. A public benefit company is basically a way to protect decisions made if they were to not align with the concept of “shareholder primacy” [2]. On the other hand, if Bluesky had registered as a certified B Corp [3], that would have more weight to it as they not only have to state their intentions but also provide evidence.

In regards to being federated - are they actually federating with anyone yet? Genuine question, I haven’t kept up.

In regards to being open source, it’s a good start, but like the Chromium project, the company’s needs will drive it forward and the interest of the company will come first, good or bad.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(social_network)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_primacy

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_Corporation_(certification)

Going from one billionaire’s platform to another (Twitter/Musk > Bluesky/Dorsey) is not a smart move. There’s a vast segment of the population that learns nothing and keeps making the same mistakes.

does HGL require the other game launchers to be installed or is it standalone? I’d rather not install epic launcher.

you could set it up on a non standard port like 99. you have to manually add “:99” at the end of your domain name, but it works.

I’d say that’s good news, everyone!

any benefits over using newpipe?

No hate on FF mobile from me, but I can objectively say Chrome, at least visually and subjectively, performs noticably faster than FF. That said, I still prefer FF over Chrome.

It’s based on the “Mozilla application framework” [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_application_framework

I believe they’ve inherited the K-9 Mail app project but haven’t yet renamed it. At least it’s still showing up as K-9 Mail for me on an Android device.

Revolt is a great alternative to Discord, although I personally am still rooting for Matrix/Element in the long run.

hey man, just so you’re aware ( because maybe you don’t see it) your tone comes off retaliatory when all beehaw did is try to protect their community using the tools available. is that wrong? why would you follow that with unsubscribing from good communities there? I’m not getting it.