Europe has so many treasures—it’s hard to choose just one! For example, I really admire Switzerland: not only is it stunning with its snow-capped Alps and crystal-clear lakes, but it also has a long tradition of neutrality and diplomacy, helping foster peace in a region with such a rich and complex history. It’s a place where natural beauty and human cooperation come together beautifully.

… that’s obviously AI!

People before ChatGPT thought critically of things on Google as much as they do ChatGPT today.

Every GitLab instance requires you to have an account there to comment and submit PRs. Projects are often hosted on different instances.

which country, and what kind of criticism?

That’s “narcissists”.

https://fedia.io

I’m guessing the concern is “the feds”, a pejorative term to refer to undercover police?

The idea of federation is that you have multiple instances of the same medium of social network; of the same lexicon. The same ATProto relay/firehose is the same instance of a social network. As explored in the link I gave you, ATProto does not make mastodon-scale self-hosting of relays easy, nor does it intend to, emphasis on “mastodon-scale”; instead, it makes centralized monolith self-hosting of existing/exported exoduses easy.

That’s a different type of social network, which is also good, but the point is you are heavily incentivized to make another microblog relay.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

I support what they wanna do with a credible exit, but claiming that their goal is to or that they do make it easy for multiple different social networks (your PDS is not a new network, it’s data locally stored for the existing network) to communicate with each other is just false

1. that’s just ageism gatekeeping /hj
2. Assuming you mean video chat: I think it’s very reasonable for someone to turn down a PII (personally-identifiable information) reveal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_199#c-Dilettante-20241204211400-EEng-20241204232600

By that point you may as well be an LLM. ChatGPT is pretty good at emulating writing styles.

username checks out

that’s a very normal bio

is it that bad

snoo stare intensifies

Yes, but you don’t need to use Lemmy or go to Lemmy to read items of the feed (if said item is a link outside lemmy, ofc). It’s called a link aggregator for a reason.

People don’t care about decentralization as long as they have a credible exit; in fact, many may prefer the features of centralization. Bluesky also has an algorithm.

TL;DR: Bluesky isn’t feasibly federated due to hardware demands of self-hosting the relay—which would require every instance to host the same, synced copy of the entirety of Twitter everywhere—among other things, but is great at providing what its committed corporation calls a centralized “credible exit“: “if Bluesky Social PBC goes out of business or loses users’ trust, other providers can step in to provide an equivalent service using the same dataset and the same protocols”