Social network Bluesky, a competitor to X, Threads, Mastodon, and others, is opening up its doors with today's news that the network is now opening up
  • tourist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    2 years ago

    I’d like to preface this by saying that my prefrontal cortex is mostly lard and anxiety medication, so sorry if I sound stupid here.

    Why bother with BlueSky over Mastodon?

    Bluesky is a “public benefit corporation”, whereas Mastodon is proper open source if I understood correctly.

    To me “public benefit corporation”, just sounds shady. Why should BlueSky be trustworthy? Because of Jack Dorsey?

    I know musk turned Twitter into a bizarre fever dream hellscape, but I don’t recall it being sunshine and roses under Dorsey’s leadership either. The platform would pester me for my phone number to “prevent spam” (they really said that shit with a straight face). White supremacists openly just said awful shit. The video player was ass.

    But, I’ll be optimistic. Hopefully this won’t be Twitter 2: Judgement Day. I hope it will be a good tool for whistleblowers and breaking news. Ideally, it will have a symbiotic relationship with other federated networks instead of a hostile pain in the ass.

    • Stamau123@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      From Wikipedia: In business, and only in United States corporate law, a benefit corporation is a type of for-profit corporate entity whose goals include making a positive impact on society. Laws concerning conventional corporations typically do not define the “best interest of the corporation”, which has led some to believe that increasing shareholder value (profits and/or share price) is the only overarching or compelling interest of a corporation. Benefit corporations explicitly specify that profit is not their only goal. Their activities may or may not differ much from traditional corporations.

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      they’re both open source.

      bluesky was just made by former twitter users who wanted the twitter experience without musk.

      mastodon was made to be the opposite of twitter.

      they’re both good; i prefer twitter but things like bridgy-fed help bring the best of both worlds and let mastodon and bluesky talk to each other.

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
      171·
      2 years ago

      Wasn’t there a shitstorm recently because someone made a bluesky-mastodon bridge.

      (there seems to be a shitstorm when anyone does anything vaguely imaginative with mastodon though)

    • chockblock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Is it based on ActivityPub? I don’t really know much about it other than Jack Dorsey is involved.

  • makeasnek@lemmy.mlEnglish
    124·
    2 years ago

    Nostr vs Mastodon on Privacy & Autonomy:

    • Relay/instance admins can choose which content goes through their relay on either platform
    • On nostr, your DMs are encrypted. In Mastodon, the admin of the sender and receiver can read them, as can anybody else who breaks into their server
    • On nostr, a relay admin can control what goes through their relay, but they can’t stop you from following/DMing/being followed by whoever you want since you are typically connected to multiple relays at once. As long as one relay allows it, signal flows. Nostr provides the best of both worlds: moderated “public squares” according to your moderation preferences, autonomy to follow/dm/be followed by anybody you want (assuming that individual user hasn’t blocked you).
    • On mastodon, your identity is tied to your instance. If your instance goes down, you lose your follow/followee list, DMs, etc. On Nostr, it’s not, so this doesn’t happen. Mastodon provides some functionality to migrate identity between instances but it’s clunky and generally requires to have some form of advanced notice.
    • Both have all the same functions as twitter: tweet, reply, re-tweet, DM, like, etc.

    Why I think nostr will win https://lemmy.ml/post/11570081

        • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          2 years ago

          So you’re hoping judges will collectively reinterpret the definition of fair use under copyright law to exclude the training of AI models? Good luck with that lol

          Also, most of your comments wouldn’t be considered copyrightable.

            • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
              33·
              2 years ago

              I’m not an authority on copyright, nor did I claim to be. I’m just aware of my surroundings.

              And again, even if courts suddenly decide that training AI isn’t fair use, you don’t have to attach a license to your comments for it to apply. Content that you produce is copyrighted by default, with all rights reserved. You are exclusively giving away rights by attaching a CC license, not reserving them.

  • Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Bluesky’s official app sucks ass, that’s already enough of a reason for me to not use it for the time being. It really is terrible, shitty web view banking app level of terribleness and speed

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I am using another great fediverse Twitter clone called Catodon.social which has a MUCH nicer UI than either Mastodon or Bluesky. I want all corners of the fediverse to do well. It’s the future of social media I think.

    • Wiz@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Phanpy.social is a great frontend for Mastodon that looks even better on a phone.