I’m pretty sure there can be other bad stuff in water that existed before the industrial revolution

Bluesky’s algorithm is entirely optional and replaceable with user built algorithms

It’s not “it” that wants you to log in, the devs created the site to be entirely public. but users demanded an option to hide their profiles from logged out users. Any hidden posts are because the user explicitly set the flag in their own settings

The api endpoints are still public btw. Third party clients can see these profiles just fine :| not a fan of that decision tbh

“this film is dedicated to the brave mujahideen fighters of afghanistan”

man I feel sad seeing posts like this. We had a comparatively good society here for a bit but now a good chunk of the smart and decent people are going to emigrate. I can’t blame them but still worried about what’s going to happen to the rest of us. Wonder if this is how Germans felt in the early 1930s

Now I’m curious how do the journalists get the data to speak authoritatively, does tiktok give them special access or smth

How can they start handling base loads if there is literally no sun or wind (as happens reasonably frequently). You either need a ton of storage which is its own environmental can of worms or nuclear

agreed, this is really low hanging fruit for fixing society in general- services (banking but also insurance (remember Obama’s failed public option)) that everyone needs but are privately run should have competition run by the government that is publicly funded and run with the goal of break-even instead of for profit.

Let the for profit ones try to find reasons to exist then!

Other candidates for a public option: ISPs, ride-sharing services, credit rating agencies, etc etc

This is false, they support did:web which ties your identity to ownership of a DNS name (which is its own can of worms, but not controlled by bluesky like PLC).

Unless you mean that you still have to register your pds it to get indexed by the relay, so people can read your posts without querying your server directly (which is possible but discouraged). This is actually an advantage over mastodon/activitypub however, your personal pds will not crash if a post goes viral (unlike a personal mastodon instance).

They support did:web too if you don’t like did:plc

bro why do you think he started the war

Saudi company iirc. Which I guess is basically the same thing

Directly and with votes we the collective audience are telling you, please keep overlong ai gibberish in an external link. If that makes it get fewer views then perhaps it’s not that interesting