So very very much.
Unbelievable that no one came up with something in all these years while Facebook steadily turned into the complete hell hole it is now.
Bluesky is a clear replica of Twitter, it has the Twitter UI. Looking through my Bluesky feed it is still very text-heavy. A dedicated Photo View would be nice.
Omg!!! This makes me so happy! Sign me up. I’ve been using Facebook as a scrapbook for my granddaughter but can’t stand Facebook! I’ll leave in a heartbeat!
Flashes is a very aggressive app. I mean, you walk by an app and you see 50 guys who look just like me fighting over very complicated shirts, you download it. Yes, you do. You go in.
Looking forward to this. I hope there'll will be an option to transfer my posts/pictures from Ig automatically, so I can leave Meta behind once and for all 😍
The only reason I'm staying on FB for now is for the photo and accomplishments that we share with family and friends. If BlueSky can do something similar and my family and friends join me here, that would be great.
Yay! I want to get away from Meta entirely but none of the Instagram download solutions give me enough functionality to retain my memories in the way I need.
Good. Two things I miss about Facebook are the fact that real-life friends have been abandoned, (I know no one personally in here), and the chance to share my photos in a good format. Nowt to be done about the former without getting people to defect, but if this addresses the latter issue, great.
It’s an interesting idea to have different clients on top of bsky, having that type of assymetric interaction though might be a problem, the neta data idea has to be in from the start
Other atproto networks are being developed as we speak; and the Bluesky devs are incredibly happy to see it. This will help protect us from enshittification as we can just swap servers and keep our social graph and posts.
Bluesky's "do no evil" moment. If I may steal a paleo-republican concept we need to keep these corporations small and weak enough that we can drown them in a bathtub if we need to.
That’s what we’re all striving for, ensuring that there are enough nodes on the network that there is no core owner; and it’s impossible to lock users in.
I'm really trying to figure it out. I have many books on Kindle, so I'm trapped there. I'll try online libraries for e-books now. I'm thinking about getting a delivery locker so I can order from other stores. It will be inconvenient.
I simply send an email to my Kindle specific email with the doc or book attached. The email you send with has to be white-list on your amazon account. Jget most of my books ( royalty free or in the public domain,otherwise it's not legal) from website like https://annas-archive.org/
Amazon owns the subsidiaries like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Whole Foods, Audible, Ring, Goodreads, IMDb, Zappos, Twitch and Goodreads. They own products like Prime and Kindle. We're stuck.
AWS running government services is what really gets me. If you pay taxes, or buy things from people that pay taxes, Amazon are getting a tiny slice of whatever you earn or spend. It is literally impossible to exist without making Amazon richer.
libby and hoopla are both wonderful ebook sources! project gutenberg lets you download public domain works for free. if you're willing to do a little extra work, you can also get the google play store running on a kindle to open up tons more possibilities.
Amazon needs broken up especially because of how they have used sales data of 3rd party sellers to create their own private label products. That's a really, really crappy thing to do to people who use your platform. Plus it is anti competitive.
Laughing all all the way to the US taxpayer bank. Fun Fact: Part of the US electorate actually thought elected and un-elected billionaires would do the right thing by them...Comedy gold.
Most likely. SightEngine gives it 99% probability that it’s AI generated. If you ever wonder, SightEngine is a good place to check. Just save the photo and upload it to the site.
Soooooo any vr alternatives? I regret using meta store for game purchases instead of steam etc. Future purchases will be not meta. The problem is, I need a headset that isn't oculus.
Signal app is a much better and fully private chat/social app than WhatsApp. Having a replacement for Facebook would be a real game changer. I hope someone will develop that soon!
I'm in several groups on Facebook besides having relatives who only use it and have never used any other social media. I really wish someone would come up with a similar program that is user friendly for the inexperienced folk so I could talk them into leaving FB with me.
YouTube (and therefore Google too--songle Google owns YouTube and promoted it heavily) is actually possibly THE worst site for pushing misinformation and making the world a worse place--even a bit worse than Meta.
Hi Roxiii,I just come across your profile very lovely and awesome. I’ll like to know more about a woman just like you if you would send me a friend request or a direct msg ok.
Death to the status quo, we are soft from complacency, the era of enshittification is here so we must seek alternatives and envision a better future for the digital landscape. Also, decentralized feels like the way to go so anything building on that is good
I'd argue you do, competition, you don't want everyone centralized to one singular app, personally I think we need to get out of that headspace (one app to rule them all)
So, in theory, you'll get multiple people creating things for the protocol, Bluesky being one piece, flashes another, and more in the future, and ppl pick what they like and they all compete, and better features are made
Flashes is run by Bluesky? It isn't run by them, it just uses the same protocol as Bluesky, that's the point of a public protocol, so other people can build on top of it, and all those parts can talk to one another
Hi Susy,I just come across your profile very lovely and awesome. I’ll like to know more about a woman just like you if you would send me a friend request or a direct msg ok.
What's amazing on Bluesky so far is the number of intelligent and educated people totally oblivious to the dire straights of the US, its finances and security, including its administration as a whole. The whole thing is literally falling apart, yet not a word is spoken. It's like The Twilight Zone.
And they're saying they're going to be picking up some mandarin. Hey look, these billionaires want to force us to use their platforms... fuck that. You can't tell me with all the atrocities we are facing the biggest issue they want to tackle is banning TikTok. 🤦♀️ so dumb.
When they say "national security risk" it's not about China collecting our data. Our data is already out there. Google your name & town & you'll see. They just can't control the narrative & keep people from organizing against them which is why a lot of us are here. To organize
I would like you to fix the problem I'm having validating my email address. I've tried 10 times and keep getting the failure notice. I'm not a failure. The problem is on your end not mine. I am not able to fully enjoy Bluesky as others do. I'm not a scammer or criminal. I want this fixed.
Yeah Flickr was quite the it once. It really went down the toilet. Mind you Flickr didn't exactly have to overachieve to be far superior to ImageShack, Yahoo Photos and PhotoBucket.
It's not exactly back to where it was in the best days but it's improved since Yahoo sold it. I'm kinda hoping the Meta/IG fallout draws more people to it. But social media has changed so much & Flickr is still more about the art of photos than a life update or influencers & thirst traps.
This is by a wide margin the most popular post I've ever made on this goddamn site, y'all are freaks, but I am too so...... I don't have a lesson or moral to end on.
Star Trek fans, huh? (I tried to figure out my academic rank. Masters degree, graduated with a virtually perfect GPA, then worked in my field, figured Lt. Commander)
If bluesky were to do this, an important feature to have is to be able to back-date photos and an option to have photos appear in chronological order instead of upload order. Lots of people would want to re-upload years worth of ig footage
In my marketing dreams, there’s a Facebook/X hybrid platform that combines the best features of both like profiles and networking, short-form feeds for quick updates, groups and communities, public and friends feed, direct messaging, trending topics & hashtags, event integration, et. al.
Hi John, can I get added to the Naturalist feed? 🌿
I am a Sandhill Crane photographer who would love to have a place to contribute my habitat and other iNat-ish photos to. Thank You!
Pixelfed is a great replacement for Instagram. I haven't been using it for very long, but so far, it's been great -- and free -- and it's not owned by a billionaire.
Thank you. I was wondering what people were talking about when they said pixelfed. Have you looked at VERO? It’s owned by a billionaire, but he’s got standards. VERO stands for truth, no ads, no advertising, chronological posting —app still being developed…. Lots of photos being shared on this site.
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Unbelievable that no one came up with something in all these years while Facebook steadily turned into the complete hell hole it is now.
but I is an old now
I suppose there is a large market of people not interested in reading who just want to 'oooo' and 'ahhhh' things?
There’s a very sparse vert video app based on ActivityPub out now if you’re interested. Lookup Loops.
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Hot flash?
"Tonight at 11 a new hot flash is taking the world by storm"
We can go back to our memes!
This a joke and not a joke.
And.... best App Name never to attract a visually sensitive person.
Right?
Ho-hum. When is federation happening for the AT protocol on a level that normies can use it?
https://freeourfeeds.com/
I guess 'flashing' doesn't have the same double entendre potential in US English as in other English-speaking countries?
https://bsky.app/profile/skunkityskunk.bsky.social/post/3lfsqss7t5c2o
"that is, U.S. users are signaling that they would rather use a foreign adversary’s app than return to Meta at this point."
I was going to say that at this point using a chinese spy platform feels less betrayal than zuck.
You can read about it in "Chaos Machine".
@bsky.app @support.bsky.team
My entire fyp was in English within a day. #Tiktokrefugee
@allgamesnogames.bsky.social
We CAN use RedNote 😁
TERRIBLE name
Add an "r" & you have connotations of perverts...
Meta
Tik Tok
Going, going, GONE !
BlueSky
Red Note
Flashes
On the UP 🤪
The Billionaires will freak*...
I am a Sandhill Crane photographer who would love to have a place to contribute my habitat and other iNat-ish photos to. Thank You!
https://pixelfed.org/