No, any CEO that tried to do this would get eaten alive, if not immediately by their board/investors then a bit later by competition from more ruthless ceos. In a capitalist system they literally have no other choice.

I don’t really see any way to fix it from the inside. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better, and not by methods they’re going to like. I’m with bill burr here

If you disapprove of internet companies caving to authoritarian politics, I have bad news for you about Yandex

It was by the largest (by a fair margin) socialist-aligned subreddit, but in practice it was like 60% shitposts. Was originally associated with the eponymous podcast, but the hosts have repeatedly said they disliked it.

they were originally refugees from the reddit ban of r/chapotraphouse (which, while cringy, was not nearly as bad as r/the_donald that got banned in the same wave. but the reddit admins had a thing for being “fair and balanced”)

yep literally this. don’t most routers nowadays have a dns server with a hosts file you can edit?

Did you know we have these things called computer files that can store information. There’s even one in your router specifically for storing IP addresses

This was me up to about age 24. I just read books instead

It’s also because the devs are communists. Let’s not skip that part lol

These guys seem cool but they’re not the archive.org from the op article

Which client do you use?

Yeah wholesome mom and pop businesses getting eaten by larger, more specialized and efficient corpos is not a flaw, it’s an inherent feature of capitalism. A worker at a specialized firm can manage dozens of apartments for the same salary as your aunt managing just one or two- she stands no chance in the long run. Same for retail stores and most other kinds of businesses really.

The only solution is democracy- having the larger more efficient firm be democratically owned by its workers and accountable to them and through them the community, rather to a cigar chomping investor hundreds of miles away

No, not all investment is the same. look up the difference between rent and profit.

someone should do a podcast with him and timhouthi chalamet

Yeah so far i’m happy with .ee and its mod/federation policy but it’s always nice to have backups

let me know if you find a good one (good chance it won’t federate with .world)

trust me i know… i used to have high expectations and think like that too. but nowadays i’m more into meeting people where they’re at, even if that means “barely literate” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You gotta read the room and put the conciliatory part up front when people’s emotions are up. They put it at the end unfortunately

According to police sources, the three words “deny,” “depose,” and “defend” were carved into the live rounds and shell casings
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The three words bear a striking resemblance to Jay Feinman’s [20]10 book Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claim and What You Can Do About It.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-ceo-bullets-words-engraved-b2659262.html

Yes, this is the strongest argument against it and the biggest flaw. They keep saying in interviews that they are treating their future selves as adversaries and they do open source most everything but I would be a lot happier if the protocol development was spun off into a separate org from the for profit service. If it dies, this will be what killed it. But I hope they make it (by it I mean the tools for everyone else to make the ecosystem).

Yes, and I’ve been yelling at them about the problem of scaling down for a while, since the same “relay” service needs to be both a firehose and a full mirror. This requirement (and thus scalability) of running a relay is becoming a big problem even for the main devs. According to them however you can mitigate this to a reasonable amount for a home lab (~8 cores, 16gb ram, ~2Tb ssdl) if you simply don’t store any backlog and just retransmit posts https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lbjdux6ubc2f

This is what they’re doing internally to manage the load and are also working on implementing relay sharding/scoping to let you just index a small slice of the network, which should eliminate the problem. https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/3036 and here’s someone implementing a proof of concept third party version https://bsky.app/profile/pet.bun.how/post/3lbwnx2rxxs2o

It’s true that the main devs’ priorities are building the large scale parts first and then worrying about downscaling, the whole point was always to replace twitter and work at a similar scale, which requires hard tradeoffs. I do worry that they’ll run out of money before they can do the work to let the ecosystem become sustainable by itself.

But I have faith (for now) because they have people I know from when they worked on secure-ssb and dat protcols, which are truly decentralized but never took off for other reasons.