Neither does Bluesky.

Because all of the cool people are there! Don’t you want to be cool, too?

It doesn’t bother people that their blocks are public?

I was talking about Bluesky.

Who’s the billionaire?

It’s run by a millionaire, not a billionaire. People like it because it’s Twitter without Musk. That’s it.

Doesn’t Threads use AP?

I’m getting Google+ vibes.

Because there’s VC money behind it.

Run memtest86+. I had similar issues and it was due to faulty RAM.

I assume so. There’s a download and setup instructions here.

Have you tested your RAM?

I run Wayland, too, but this recommendation seems out of true with the other ones. I would think that even now x11 is still the tried-and-true, safe option.

It’s in the article.

Not quite. Elon is a rather singular figure.

Apparently the instances are connected to a central hub.

I thought it takes that much storage to run a relay, not an instance. (Which Bluesky calls a “Personal Data Store.”)

Maybe this is just my ignorance showing, but this seems like a really archaic way to design something like this in 2024. Dump all the data into a central repository and then have clients pull from that?

It reminds me of what Google tried to do initially with Google+. They copied Diaspora’s concept of aspects, calling them “circles”. Over time, though, using the circles became more and more janky until they removed them entirely. Then, of course, Google+ got shuttered completely over security issues.

Likewise, “federation” and “decentralization” are the new hotness in social networks, so here’s a big corporation looking to cash in on that. Of course, real decentralization would take too much power away from the corporation, so they have to half-ass it somehow.

You mean misogynists? I tend to not feel bad for misogynists.

I voted for Jill Stein. She advocated an arms embargo against Israel to end the genocide, which I believe is the best course of action.