As far as I know there is no intention to have Bluesky be proprietary in any way in the long run, just the philosophy is different and closer to P2P networks. For example migration is a big element of the design, unlike Mastodon. But at the moment it’s still being built, hence why it looks much more proprietary for now.

Threads still hasn’t actually fully connected with the fediverse, they are working on that, and until yesterday they weren’t live in Europe yet, so it wasn’t a real alternative for many people. That is changing drastically.

This post sounds to me exactly like people’s reactions to Brexit. They were like “see, it’s not to bad” for the whole time when nothing was implemented yet. And then it actually went live, and everything went to shit. Keep an eye on when things actually go live the way they plan.

THIS is the kind of Protect Our Children that we need.

Mostly agree, except many people are fed-up with algorithms, so giving a manual option helps with that.

and when you reach 10%, you basically toggle the general opinion massively.

yep, PDAs became more widely attractive when phone functionality got added. or you have an iPod Touch.

13+ years on Reddit, never very active though… still modding some smaller communities.

sometimes afaik you could still have success renaming the file to .gif or .gifv I think? Telegram and Whatsapp should also work afaik.

look up mp3 – that didn’t become public domain until pretty recently (I think 2017?)

not an uncommon thing really

well, see confusion by OP. otherwise really not true.

funny enough, not true. try saving a video as mp4 but not too long and without sound (!) and it will be treated exactly like gifs on those platforms.

Big Game by Samuel Jackson. I really loved that movie and people barely know it exists.

The big difference is that some networks just make good moderation and defending your eyes basically impossible. Not with the Fediverse, where it’s designed to be the way you like as a person and as a community.

Only outside of Mastodon. People confuse decentralized, P2P and federated and think it’s a free to all, which means fascism…

Portugal has the Uber law, all drivers have to be clearly indicated with a TVDE sticker and they need some basic qualification afaik. Also some taxi services double dip of course.