Everything was freshly installed and updated including the OS (PopOS as I’m running it on my gaming PC)

Whether Gaza is entirely rubble in 2 years vs 4 years, it’s still rubble.

Whether Billionaires and corporations make 50% extra profits or 100% profits via exploitation of workers, it’s still exploitation.

If on day 1 of a presidency you can effectively have nationwide ICE raids and deportations, the previous administration allowed and helped in that in at least some capacity.

Listen man I myself am half white, it’s okay to accept that most white people right now are the cause of a lot of problems in society. They are very hateful racist people and it’s also okay for people of all skin tones to acknowledge that the majority of white help the police and the rise of fascism.

Don’t slip down this path of “they’re racist to white people”. Nobody here is racist to any individual white person based SOLELY on their skin tone. Nobody is judging you personally and you shouldn’t take it that way.

call out the actual people who are doing the bad?

Brother take a look at who is doing the bad. Who is assisting the bad?

As another mid 20s dude this is most likely because they’re at Berkeley. You’ll find a much different answer in some other crowds who don’t have the luxury of being able to be ignorant

The Overton window has shifted so much in 4 years that 2024 democrats were definitely running on 2016 Republican platforms.

I don’t believe apathy is the solution but let’s not kid ourselves, they are effectively the same in regards to the proletariat. They just operate on a 50% societal deterioration as opposed to Republicans 100%

These next few election cycles

It’s very hopeful to assume there will be another set of elections in 4 years or even midterms in all 50 states. We should be operating as if there won’t be.

Yes but we must move to stop blaming the individuals and instead blame the systems that allowed this to happen.

Blaming the individuals restarts the neverending cycle and fractures communities.

The sad reality is this is only valid if you live in one of the 4 battleground states due to our shitty voting system.

If you’re willing to use a web app and pay $50 a year. Monarch has been incredible for me.

While they definitely do this for handles I’m pretty confident this is also done for DIDs (Decentralized identifiers) and it doesn’t provide a solution if you lose your domain. I think Bluesky (Appview) specifically gets around this by also tying your DID:web to your DID:plc, in case of domain loss. So I think it exists on the protocol but they don’t automatically utilize the decentralization for end-user experience(domain loss) but other appviews can. But I could be wrong.

https://atproto.com/specs/did

I truthfully don’t think this bridge will work long-term because it’s rather clunky for the end users. I think mastodon needs an integration built into their platform so instances can have the choice to turn on a two way atProto connection that creates accounts under the instance identity and writes and reads post to atProto.

Bluesky doesn’t need to adjust anything as they’ll pick up anything written to atProto.

Aren’t identities already decentralized by using domains you own as your identity? Ex. Incase you’re unfamiliar, my Bluesky @ is my domain I own.

Instances aren’t necessarily a thing in atProto because an instance usually refers to a single server. But you can see people’s posts from selfhosted PDS/relays yes.

If you can build your own or selfhost each of the following to read and push back to all of the atProto protocol:

1. App

2. Backend Relay

3. Moderation

4. Algorithm

And you still say that’s not decentralized I’m not sure what you’re looking for nor what your definition of decentralization is.

Open protocols and APIs seem pretty meaningless to me if there’s a single point of control for the brand.

You’d need to expand on this more for me to understand you. Yes there’s a single point of control from a moderation standpoint (labeler), as there is on Lemmy instances. But anyone can host their own ATProto relays and the Bluesky relay will federate with each other automatically.

If everyone migrates to bluesky and then bluesky says “of we’re not doing that open thing anymore because of this new embiggened thing we’re doing” everyone will still be on bluesky.

Not necessarily because the accounts are atProto accounts and you can migrate to another platform(albeit another doesn’t exist yet) without data loss. As far as the Bluesky app goes it really just shows you atProto posts and hosts your data (similar to Lemmy instances) they as an entity just also maintain the OSS backend Relay crawler and more.

I really think a lot of people have this perspective that it’s not decentralized just because it truly is a lot more complicated due to there being like 5 different moving pieces of decentralization (PDS, Relay, Appview, tbd labeler, algorithm) and they do a great job at obscuring it for regular users which is a great thing. And nobody has really tinkered around and set-up any sites or integrations with it yet. I’m personally trying to get a two way mastodon integration as it’s possible but nobody has done a solid implementation (just somewhat gnarly bridges between protocols)

This isn’t necessarily true. Just because their architecture is harder and not a simple server host does not strip away its decentralization.

They have decentralized the following:

• App access (can build your own or show openProto posts in your platform

• Algorithms

• Relay (backend albeit rumored to be expensive)

• More if you consider the domain name hosting stuff and media storage control. Also moderation is planned to be decentralized.

Would love for you to describe exactly how it’s more complicated. From my perspective I click a single button and it’s set up. To log in I get a notification on my device, I click a button and I’m logged in.

The idea behind federation is great but in practice it’s splintered communities far too much to serve its purpose at a large scale.

Also the people talking about added complexity? I’m convinced all the complaints are from people who haven’t set one up or used one and are immediately writing it off. Adding one is a single click of a button.

Then to sign in I literally just get a thumbprint request on my phone after entering my username. It’s far far simpler than passwords and MFA.