note at the incredible speed Threads can make changes to their product when the feel competitive pressure
and also note how super slow they are taking the activitypub integration, which is still not even halfway done after a year
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Side effect of this is that it forces Bluesky to stay as open as possible, as they can only compete with Meta by leveraging the dev community thats building on top of atproto
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Last Week in the ATmosphere:
- 20 million accounts on Bluesky!
- Threads is taking the competition with Bluesky serious; Bluesky might be closer in size to Threads than thought
- experiments with visualising the firehose
- and a ton of links
Read at: [fediversereport.com/last-week-in...](
- the actual total number of users who federate between Threads and the fediverse is closer to 25k than 50k
- Threads federation is not actually available in EU countries
- Federation is still only 1-way with a slow dev speed
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I think this is one of the hardest aspects of decentralisation: the cultural shift in mindset that people need to make that they can take control. Decentralisation doesnt 'just happen', it's people taking deliberate actions to make it happen
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what i love about the instant pot is that you can just put everything in at high pressure for 8 minutes and it will turn out well, dont even need to check the recipe
Bluesky is building a decentralised network. But how does decentralisation contribute to a better distribution of power?
I wrote about the difference between decentralisation as a technology and as a way to build better social structures.
Read at:
[fediversereport.com/bluesky-dece...](
