To add to what blaze said, you don’t need to be black to join it, from what I’ve understood, it’s just a platform for poc that has moderation and feeds that fit the goal of beimg a great place for them.

Oops, got the two mixed up, sorry

bsky is literally a non-profit, and all their shit is oss

Yes, because it is, you can host your own server (pds, relay and UI) on like a 30$ vps.

Blacksky runs their own relay

I see why you think that, and I agree threads sucks. But bsky is actually fully open source and they are actively working to make federation better. I do think the current leadership genuinely cares about making a federated platform.

Will they enshittify? Yes, probably when the current ceo leaves. But by then other services will have popped up, and ATproto is built in such a way that you can move services without your current service’s consent.

I agree. That’s why I’m happy it’s fully decentralised, so that by the time they try to do that, they’ll be but one player on atproto, and won’t be able to get away with it.

It is actually decentralized though? You can host your own pds and relay for pretty cheap now.

So is the rest of it lmao

I have a nextcloud instance and I can confirm that the ai features are plugins, and are opt-in (and also pretty cool, as ai feature go)

!remindme

yes it does, and it works as well as discord, it’s just in beta and not supported everywhere yet

Fair enough

Did you release the code publicly?

New desktop isn’t electron, and of course it’ll need your email, it’s a chat app.

But the real cool thing is that it’s a matrix client (that federates!) and all the bridges are open source, the company maintains most all of the bridges to corporate chat platforms.

https://dbzer0.com/blog/this-blog-is-now-federated-natively-to-lemmy/

tbf a lot of people here don’t know how to code, or even where to start if they do

a warm fuzzy feeling :D

But seriously it gets you nothing, they’re doing the winrar model

/c/whooosh

i was going to say the better curation tools, but then i realized it’s definitely the clients for me, having the freedom to choose exactly how i want my experience to be is so amazing, and clients like photon just trounce stuff like reddit’s ui.