For all that Russia is an imperialist police state, our e-government services are pretty slick too

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That’s cute but as a rule when dealing with the government, physical access is root access

ok this has no bearing on anything but would you consider rms a lib

It’s still early days. They are committed to open source code and their work shares some cadres and ideas with the original scuttlebutt (secure-ssb), so for now I have faith that they can build a sustainable open ecosystem before they get eaten by capitalism. The slogans and technical plans have been saying mostly all the right things, the ceo is a millennial former OWS activist, etc.

The actual practice of how they’ve responded to the recent growth surge is lackluster. They should be working on end-user/volunteer moderation tooling and instead they’re putting out statements about “verification”.

Their own site moderation has their hands full with just right wingers and illegal shit, but the flood of transphobic resist libs is still enough to drive some of the cool LGBT leftists off the site, since private accounts are not a thing and will not be for a while.

Yeah pretty much. relevant thread https://bsky.app/profile/mommunism.bsky.social/post/3lb66ewnpjc2o

Not an expert but heard this only really applies to light quadcopters. A large part of modern drone warfare are fpvs which are a lot harder to fly and require specialized controls (and training for them).

After bluesky jack started funding nostr which is a protocol for social media (like activitypub) but designed to resist censorship as a primary goal (and marketing focus). I really like the tech behind it, but by sheer coincidence the user population is mostly Bitcoin fanatics and antivaxxers.

uhh could you clarify for me how the fediverse works? I thought it was like 90% mastodon which is very much the twitter format

Yeah for an anarchist the only periods that might have been genuinely hopeful were between the revolution and full on civil war in 1917 (like 6 months) and between the failed Soviet coup and the successful Yeltsin one in 1993 (like 2 years)

It might, but actual leftists should object to that framing

Not strictly speaking. Bluesky supports did:web as well as did:plc, and with any luck they’ll add more decentralized methods

As a russian I feel this a lot :/

The Atlantic is not left leaning journalism lmao. A good rule of thumb is that if you publish David Brooks you’re not left leaning

unless i’m missing something, activitypub also needs a centralized authority like dns. That’s just how domain names work

Here’s a really good blogpost (and followup thread) outlining the differences of atproto vs activitypub (from one of the original authors of activitypub).

It got a friendly “acknowledged, we’re working on it” reply from pfrazee, one of the lead bsky devs.

https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3lbku7vdjjv2l

You can federate (well, bridge) from mastodon to bluesky (or vice versa) simply by following a bot account, it’s surprisingly seamless.

https://fed.brid.gy/

Yeah I go on it a lot and also shitpost on their developer discord. They’re good people, some of the devs come from secure scuttlebutt which was a truly anarchist social network design wise (incredibly based). But it was ahead of its time.

iirc you’re actually on a French one right now, and i’m on an Estonian one

Iirc also a new privacy policy (both on Twitter)