China “open sources” a lot of their technologies. They treat it as a form of competition, we’ll show you how to do x but you show us how to do u and whoever is better at both wins out, there’s a lot of short videos on how BYD taught other Chinese EV manufacturers and even Ford how their automated manufacturing plants work. The end result, everything becomes a highly optimized process. Glad to see they’re also adopting this framework with open sourcing AI development.

This is also a reason why there’s a hugeee cultural clash with US IP theft.

Yeah I would say they likely just aren’t using the protocol properly, that being said I’m not sure I know of an example who is.

Identity is decentralized through the protocol so they’d be fine. Bluesky at the end of the day is just app view that sits on top of the protocol so it can disappear and everything will continue operating as long as there’s a relay online.

Their federation doesn’t work the same as Lemmy & Mastodon there’s no federation to individual servers.

If Bluesky introduced ads to their app, you can take all Bluesky data from the relay and host your own app without ads. This is working today and easy to do.

If they started charging for access to the relay you can host your own relay and it will parse all users data for you to use. This is also working today but it’s a little expensive.

Something would have to SIGNIFICANTLY change with the protocol for Bluesky to change how the relay interacts with the PDS, that would require such a large infrastructure change there’s no reason even questioning further.

The reason you don’t see anyone doing it right now is because there’s not much incentive to. On Lemmy we’re each on our own little “community” but Bluesky is just here’s everyones data no matter what when hosting a relay.

I actually view it the opposite. Lemmy isn’t necessarily doomed from the start but we will not reach mass adoption because we are too clunky to use for most users because of its distributed nature.

Bluesky has enabled tons of non tech users to immediately reap the rewards without having to worry about instances or who can see their posts, while maintaining decentralization (albeit with a high cost).

The true path forward will probably be a world like Bluesky but instead of running your own relay, you’re contributing compute power to a Kubernetes cluster. Instances and having to worry about federation is far too clunky for most users, it’s the reason mastodon never saw mass adoption while Bluesky almost immediately did.

I see the “AI is using up massive amounts of water” being proclaimed everywhere lately, however I do not understand it, do you have a source?

My understanding is this probably stems from people misunderstanding data center cooling systems. Most of these systems are closed loop so everything will be reused. It makes no sense to “burn off” water for cooling.

I was just reading an article about how candy companies are trying to make GLP-1 (Ozempic) resistant candy that is effectively hyper-addicting and restarts the cycle of addiction.

Incredible how bad capitalism is for society and it’s affect on food processes in order to drive needless profits.

Power usage

I’m generally a huge eco guy but on power usage particularly I view this largely as a government failure. We have had to incredible energy resources that the government has chosen not to implement or effectively dismantled.

It reminds me a lot of how Recycling has been pushed so hard into the general public instead of and government laws on plastic usage and waste disposal.

It’s always easier to wave your hands and blame “society” than the is to hold the actual wealthy and powerful accountable.

Someone get her to Congress

We need to ban all money from all elections state wide.

I personally do have the capabilities I’m just pointing out this is unrealistic for 99% of TV watchers.

I see this thrown around a lot.

90% of us watch Netflix, Plex, YT TV or some other streaming service, how do I watch these with 4k quality without connecting to the Internet? That’s just an unrealistic request for 90% of TV users.

Pathetic. Weak. Spineless. Complicit.

it’s that the amount of people that want fascism is way too high

Perhaps in the Midwest, but I believe there are areas of the US that this doesn’t represent such as the west coast.

I see a split amongst US inevitable and it was basically written in stone the day the Democrats supported genocide and again each time they choose billionaires over their constituents. In my opinion we need to start moving these states in that direction.

I think the problem is the good ole days didn’t have LLM bots ready to spread propaganda at every turn :/

I’ve been using the polar chest HR strap for a few years, it’s been great

You won’t be able to do a thing without some level of invasion of privacy (phone # verification would probably be the best).

We’re unfortunately rapidly approaching the point where we have to make a decision A) a little invasion or B) allowing bots to roam free and spread propaganda across all major social platforms. Even if you choose path A it’s up to the platform to implement it properly. See tiktok the racism and propaganda there has SKYROCKETED since being “allowed” to stay in the US (backdoor agreements to allow propaganda bots)

You’re actually right they are decentralized and your account would continue existing if you had your own PDS and either you or someone else was running a relay.

The OP above is essentially saying what if the relay goes down, but anyone can run a relay it just costs a few hundred a month and there’s little reason to do so (right now).

Usually people on this side of the Fediverse aren’t in the know on the AT Proto inner workings.

One thing you can point out is protocol ownership, Bluesky owns the AT Proto protocol and can change it however they like while ActivityPub is a W3C ownership so a lot more resilient (albeit slower changes)

They are decentralized, the architecture is just more complicated and harder to run, but they are in fact decentralized.

You can run your own pds(data host), relay (pulls data from all pds), app view (app frontend), moderation (still in progress albeit), and even algorithms.

We have to stop saying they aren’t decentralized just because it’s more complicated and restrictive, large social media platforms will inherently be complicated and expensive in order to be reliant and fast.

Utter insanity