top posts of the last 3 hours is starting to pick up more and more british news. might seem logical considering timezones, but used to be still mainly us news usually due to skewed userbase [bsky.app/profile/laur...]( ) RE:
buying a dumb alarm clock for the bedroom and leaving your phone downstairs is honestly the greatest and easiest life upgrade ive done in quite a while shouldve done this ages ago
my weekly update on all things fediverse, with Mike Masnick joining the Bluesky board, Threads talking more about the fediverse, and more experiments with new platforms on activitypub [fediversereport.com/last-week-in...]( ) RE: [Last Week in Fediverse – ep 79]( ) View quoted note →
GenAI is now at the point where the strategy is to create fakes, pretend the other side created the fake, and then accuse the other side of creating fakes I dont think disinformation on X matters much at this point, but it certainly doesnt bode well for the state of GenAI [x.com/MsBlaireWhit...](https://x.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1822383114414420479 ) [x.com](https://x.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1822383114414420479 )
not complaining about hating on X, but I think this is the new normal. The day of having only one microblogging platform is truly over, and were now in a phase of multiple networks (threads/x/bsky/fedi) all competing and rapidly iterating/implementing each others features RE:
i can see paid link-aggregator communities working, but only in a context where access/payment is fully controlled by the community owners themselves without any intermediary (such as reddit the company) RE:
i like that bsky is super into harris/walz, but it dominates the discourse to the point that there has not been a single post that reached the catchup feeds (top liked posts) about ukraine's attack into Kursk
idle musing: assuming this is true, and its a combination of: - ideology - trump stories generating more traffic to what extend is this not the media seeing a general drop in all news traffic because we dont/cant click links on socials anymore, and misattributing it to trump? RE:
incredible funny that nostrs recent drop in DAU lines up perfectly with bitcoins drop in price [primal.net/e/note1lgf27...]( ) https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreihqknzknnzqziijcqm7wqdamw3n3y35tnsqnpmfossrlv4h47bezi
a social network is only truly decentralised when everyone misses 25% of your total network size because nobody bothered to check what the japanese were doing over there [indieweb.social/@laurenshof/...]( ) [Laurens Hof (@laurenshof@indie...]( )