Elon is scum. Twitter has become untenable. The question is if there is a viable alternative.
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chronic early adopter of decentralized tech :)
When you don’t have push notifications, you force your user to manually check for new content.
If there isn’t new content relevant to them, you’ve wasted their time and you can’t earn back that trust.
Push notifications fix that
Bitcoin overlords are so much worse than Petrodollar overlords it’s actually hilarious.
When people realize how much they suck, they’re just gonna sell and walk away.
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P2P technology loves to be like “we’re gonna use your device storage, ok? But we don’t know how much. That’s up to you, sort of.”
Holy moly, the Read tab is awesome. I didn’t even know half of these articles existed.
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The decentralization theater on Bluesky is actually astounding. There is zero point in running your own PDS if the coordination layer (relay, indexer, etc) is centralized.
All you’re doing at that point is giving free labor / resources to #bluesky corporation.
TBD was shut down before they could release a single product lol.
They deserve it for thinking that “open standards” are so important. Standards don’t matter if there’s no product.