Hallintoakaan ei välttämättä näillä iskuilla syrjäytetä vaikka Khamenei kuolikin. Sieltä nousee vaan seuraava samoista riveistä. Toki sitten jos hallinto kaatuu niin tosiaan todella naiivia kuvitella että siellä on joku kiva demokratia varmasti pystyssä heti seuraavaksi.

“died on Saturday during U.S. and Israeli military strikes on his country”

Yeah this is an insane way to frame it when he was specifically targeted.

the Johnny Harris video? Yeah, easy to see the parallels.

as long as it’s a reply to another post I’ve never seen that happen when mentioning the community. What the linked post says is certainly true though, the federation between some platforms like Lemmy or WP and Mastodon doesn’t always seem to be as solid as it is between Mastodon instances or even other platforms that regularly interact with Mastodon.

You might have to tag the community for it to show up.

Tässä nyt taas lisätään riippuvuuksia paitsi järjestelmien ylläpidon osalta niin siirretään päätöksentekoakin Yhdysvaltalaisen yrityksen kontrollissa olevan järjestelmän tekemäksi…

Ovathan kaikki jo allekirjoittaneet sen @digitaalinenitsenaisyys@mementomori.social tekemän kansalaisaloitteen täällä: https://www.kansalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/16691

@ricci@discuss.systems Thanks for the link to the explanation, that thread in general and the survey! All were quite insightful.

The features are theoretical in the sense that there is no real guarantee they’d be possible after BSky corp changes their behavior and that they are in use only in the least significant way possible, for tiny and irrelevant numbers of users. But of course this is just restating the obvious again. For a network truly to be shielded against this sort of thing it should be decentralized already before.

See this for how constellation makes no difference.

I don’t really see anything wrong with making an app for the purpose. Bit of a different target audience and probably easier setup. Also raises awareness via news coverage and by getting people to talk about it.

Ruth Ben-Ghiatin Strongmen on ollut viime aikoina kuuntelussa kun rapakon tapaiset tapahtumat ovat saaneet huomiotani siirtymään autoritarismin parempaan ymmärtämiseen. Kirjassa lähinnä kuvaillaan eri aspekteja historiallisista diktatuureista ja siitä miten niihin vajottiin ja miten ne loppuivat.

Vaikkei Berlusconi suoranaiseksi diktaattoriksi päätynytkään niin kirjassa käsitellään myös häntä ja Italian vaiheita aikanaan huonosti seurattuna tullut tästäkin opittua sen verran uutta ettei välttämättä enää nimikkopizza maistuisi jos sitä nimeä ei olisi jo keretty vaihtamaan kun ukko heitti veivinsä.

A fairly predictable type of season finale but definitely an enjoyable new series that scratched that itch of wanting to see some stories from Westeros while waiting for the new season of House of the Dragon. I have to say a lot of the episodes were fairly uneventful but that’s not so much down to there being any problem with the storytelling. Not for me anyway, I can enjoy a slower pacing. More an issue with the time-limited way of releasing them.

That mostly aligns with us knowing they currently have an active fleet size of around 3,000 and are doing 400,000 weekly trips which would suggest a million requires a fleet of about 7500 vehicles.

This is exactly the dynamic the article was describing: concerns about power concentration get answered with lists of theoretical protocol features instead of engaging with how the network actually operates. Listing technical escape hatches doesn’t address who controls the dominant infrastructure in practice.

The overwhelming majority of users rely on hosted PDSes, the main relay, and the default appview. Whoever controls those layers controls visibility, discovery, moderation signals, and reach. That’s where practical power sits. Doesn’t matter whether migration is technically possible under ideal conditions because if you’ll need it they won’t be ideal.

Acquisitions and policy changes can happen quickly. Tools that exist “yesterday” are irrelevant if users don’t act before control consolidates, and history shows that most don’t. Claiming decentralization can wait until the last possible moment ignores how network effects and defaults entrench power long before any formal lock-in occurs.

It’s also worth noting that the original article isn’t even arguing “the fediverse is better,” yet the response immediately reframes the debate as a comparison. Even if we entertain that framing, the situations aren’t symmetrical. Yes, a fediverse instance can block migrations or misbehave but no single party in the fediverse comes close to the infrastructural dominance Bluesky Corp currently holds across relays, appviews, and user gravity. An individual Mastodon instance misbehaving affects its users. Bluesky Corp fully controls the experience of over 99% of the users on the protocol and so holds the power to shape the experience of the entire network.

The issue isn’t whether both systems have theoretical weaknesses. It’s where systemic leverage concentrates in practice. And ATProto’s architecture, particularly the cost and complexity of running the more demanding components that need to have a global view of the network, structurally favors concentration at those layers.

Did this say whether the reasoning models get this right more than the others? Was curious about that but missed it if it was mentioned.

I don’t think you’re even talking about the points the article makes… You probably wouldn’t want them selling your data either but this is more about avoiding the kind of fate Twitter had.

They captured some hype but nowadays you often see people complain that the userbase isn’t diverse and that all they talk about is US politics, there’s lots of dormant accounts and the active user statistics have been looking pretty bleak since early 2025.

Assuming they don’t actually have 100M in funding already secured (which i doubt) I think there’s some doubt over how long they’ll actually be able to continue operating this way.

Blacksky does not fundamentally change the situation. They’ve got a yearly budget in excess of $100,000 and roughly 0.01% of the users. Bluesky can make all those users completely disappear from the other 99.99% with the press of a button and in the case of Link they did exactly that.

As for the “let’s trust the Bluesky team” idea, that’s of course exactly what got everyone into this mess with Twitter. The leadership can change. The investors can push them to do what they want no matter how great people the public facing team may seem to be (and honestly some of the things they’ve done has not inspired trust).

Because presumably you left reddit for a federated alternative to escape something exactly like their platform is likely to become and wouldn’t want to prop up yet another example of that when there are better alternatives.

This is yet another version of the ridiculous “we’re decentralized in theory so it doesn’t matter that we aren’t in practice” argument which the article does address. In practice it is chained because they are in complete control of the real-world use of it.

People are even worried about Google’s control over Android recently and Google has much less power over AOSP than Bluesky Corp. has over ATproto.

What is swivel-eyed is believing that Venture Capitalists won’t do the thing they’ve historically always done in the past when they’re in control.

It obviously matters whether the data and control is mostly in one company’s hands, not just whether it is in “many repositories”.