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Point to one of these DeCEnTrAlizEd services still operating after a decade. Are they in the room with us?

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i did some searching, Diaspora is 14 years old https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)

but if you limit yourself to for-profit a good candidate for oldest running decentralized platform is Minds which is some weird blockchain something or other and will turn 10 this june.

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You mean the same Diaspora that Mark Zuckerberg literally helped kickstart? Lmao sure buddy, DeCEnTrAlizAtiOn is the future.

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wow okay dude im just putting some information i found to be cool out there lay off the tone

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Failure from idiot Americans to move from tiktok to another corporate video platform and from Twitter to Blue sky . I’m done giving a shit about Americans today though, tired of laughing at their ineptitude.

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idk mastodon gained like a million users this month it’s not as bad as you think

loops.video is still in infancy (no federation yet even) so i’m not too mad there isn’t massive success there yet

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I see that, in addition to calling proprietary LLMs “”“open source”“”, we’re just calling everything that every company has done “”“open source”“” as well 😑

The closest thing they have to an accurate point is Android, but Google didn’t start with open source shit, and Facebook and Twitter sure as shit didn’t either.

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Chrome as well, but the point stands that it is wild to say those companies started from open source like Bluesky has.

The closest true interpretation I can think of is that they, and most companies, fork open source software with permissive licenses since they can legally derive proprietary software from it. That’s why I’m a staunch (A)GPL boi myself.

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yeah i was confused by that too. OOP could have left it as “user-centric” and i’d be 100% there.

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nothing prevents them

–>

everything is pushing them to

go the exact same road as other megacorps.
When they reach a certain threshold they gonna start monetizing all the this and aging new revenue streams (so ads, censorship, political megacorp bribery, etc).

This is why we foss (and federate).

Can’t have equals in a 0 sum game of capital hoarding.

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Bluesky’s “open” BS line is proven BS by them not being federated already, even within their own non-activitypub protocol. This is also by design. Bluesky is what MSNBC was in the 2000’s, an oasis from the now way more rightwing thing they consumed before (CNN/Twitter) that dominated discourse in that era, when war is breaking out and more power is being centralized in the executive while ever more bounds are broken from the state-adjacent private sector. It has a purpose for the bourgeois that consume it, but it’s not like fediverse shit, which is REAL like pre-corporate internet, and has the potential to actually change everything.

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