"How decentralized is Bluesky really?" by Christine Lemmer-Webber

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 2 days ago

I’m not really sure what the point of this is. Why not just create communities on Lemmy for those listed topics?

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 26 days ago

[Tesseract is] a Photon fork.

TIL that Tesseract is a Photon Fork. Would you know, by chance, at what point in Photon’s development it was forked to form Tesseract, and what the rationale was?

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

That’s pretty neat!

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 2 months ago

I agree with this, in that I think it avoids the issue of appearing to side with one or the other — I think it’s more neutral.

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

You’re welcome! 😊

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

IDK if they’re “Fediverse specific”, but I love SSTF’s (@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world) art.

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 3 months ago

What client are you using?

I use Lemmy UI ^[1], Tesseract ^[2], and Thunder ^[3].

References

Type: Repository. Name: “lemmy-ui”. Publisher: [“LemmyNet”. “GitHub”]. Published: 2025-04-02T16:19:00.000Z (Commit: “74864c165ca799d141314ec1d1c2d0ecf7f64b7a”). Accessed: 2025-04-03T08:06Z. URI: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui.
Type: Repository. Name: “tesseract”. Publisher: [“asimons04”. “GitHub”]. Published: 2025-03-20T12:16:39.000Z (Commit: c49e93a74c20d352174afca80105b6d941d3cb12). Accessed: 2025-04-03T08:08Z. URI: https://github.com/asimons04/tesseract.
Type: Repository. Name: “thunder”. Publisher: [“thunder-app”. “GitHub”]. Published: 2025-04-02T18:45:10.000Z. (Commit: 2e7b9127a1aff210d0a2af32aafdff554e73aef5). Accessed: 2025-04-03T08:09Z. URI: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder.

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 3 months ago

[…] Boost is totally screwing up the references display

Yeah, I’ve heard report of that bug in Boost before [1] [2].

Out of curiosity, what does it look like for you?

References

Type: Comment. Author: “Kalcifer” (“@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works”). Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: “Happy #GlobalSwitchDay”. Author: “@squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de”. Publisher: [“Fediverse” (“!fediverse@lemmy.world”). “sh.itjust.works”. Lemmy.]. Published: 2025-02-01T07:08:40Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32046509.]. Published: 2025-02-02T04:56:40Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T07:51Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32046509/16441818.
Type: Comment. Author: “Kalcifer” (“@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works”). Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: “I just wish more people were willing to try out the alternatives”. Author: “Sunshine (she/her)” (“@Sunshine@lemmy.ca”). Publisher: [“Fediverse memes” (“!fedimemes@feddit.uk”). “sh.itjust.works”. “Lemmy”.]. Published: 2025-01-12T23:12:46Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/31006865.]. Published: 2025-02-05T03:39:19Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T08:00Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/31006865/16502481.

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 3 months ago

It’s not off-topic when the person in question is involved. […]

As stated in the title, the topic is concerning the AI bots that are spamming GitHub repos ^[1], not anything to do with nutomic. I personally encountered the bot in nutomic’s repo ^[2], so I simply used it as a generic example. Given this, your comment feels off-topic, imo.

References

Type: Post. Title: “There now exist bots that spam GitHub repos with AI generated solutions to issues”. Author: “Kalcifer” (“@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works”). Publisher: [“Mildly Infuriating” (“!mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world”). “sh.itjust.works”. “Lemmy”.]. Published: 2025-04-03T01:06:34Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T05:48Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35468786/17744627.
- The title of the post is “There now exist bots that spam GitHub repos with AI generated solutions to issues”.
Type: Comment. Author: “okFduCi8nl6bRz”. Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: “[Bug] Forking an article triggers notifications to be sent for every previous edit up to the point of forking.” (#129). Author: “Kalcifer” (“K4LCIFER”). Publisher: [“Nutomic/ibis”. GitHub.]. Published: 2025-04-03T00:16:06.000Z. URI: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/issues/129 (Alternative (Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20250403003232/https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/issues/129).]. Published: 2025-04-03T00:19:44.000Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T00:58Z. URI: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/issues/129#issuecomment-2774030467 (Alternative (Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20250403003232/https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/issues/129#issuecomment-2774030467.).

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 3 months ago

Maybe a joke at the expense of StackOverflow. […]

Yeah, I figured that, but I don’t understand how it’s relevant to the topic of this post.

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 3 months ago

I’m not sure I understand the relevance of your comment. Could you explain?

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 3 months ago

[…] Who’s that […]?

I presume they are referring to @nutomic@lemmy.ml ^[1]; nutomic is one of the main Lemmy developers ^[1.1].

Context? […] what does he have to do with this post?

If they are indeed referring to @nutomic@lemmy.ml, I presume they are mentioning nutomic because the example GitHub repository that I cited ^[3] is owned by nutomic ^[2]; that being said, specifically regarding their claim itself that nutomic is transphobic ^[4] and is a genocide denier ^[4], it is entirely off topic, imo.

I will make no comment on the veracity of the claim itself without evidence. I do not wish to speak for nutomic — I will let them speak for themself here should they wish.

References

Type: Webpage (Profile). Name: “@nutomic@lemmy.ml”. Publisher: [“@nutomic@lemmy.ml”. “Lemmy” (“lemmy.ml”). “Lemmy”.]. Accessed: 2025-04-03T01:58Z. URI: https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic.
1. Biography.
  
  Lemmy maintainer
Type: Webpage. Name: “Nutomic/ibis”. Publisher: [“Nutomic”. GitHub]. Published: 2025-04-02T14:42:54.000Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T02:00Z. URI: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis.
- One can see in the repository identifier “Nutomic/ibis” that it is owned by “Nutomic”.
Type: Post. Title: “There now exist bots that spam GitHub repos with AI generated solutions to issues”. Author: “Kalcifer” (“@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works”). Publisher: [“Mildly Infuriating” (“!mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world”). “sh.itjust.works”. “Lemmy”.]. Published: 2025-04-03T01:06:34Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T02:03Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35468786/17744627.

[…] I recently encountered one of these AI bots in Ibis’s GitHub repository.
- Ibis is the cited GitHub repository.
Type: Comment. Author: “Deceptichum@quokk.au”. Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: “There now exist bots that spam GitHub repos with AI generated solutions to issues”. Author: “Kalcifer” (“@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works”). Publisher: [“Mildly Infuriating” (“!mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world”). “sh.itjust.works”. “Lemmy”.]. Published: 2025-04-03T01:06:34Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35468786/17744627.]. Published: 2025-04-03T01:36:27Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T02:08Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35468786/17744627.

Eww Nutomic the transphobic genocide denier.

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 4 months ago

Transphobic main dev […]

Do you have a source?

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

[…] it doesn’t remove admins from the equation and users still have to choose an instance to be associated with […]

I think that’s a fair point! At any rate, I do agree with you in that I think that users should be completely portable for a truly sustainable federated service.

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 5 months ago

It could be done without having to clone all data though. Reddit is hosted by AWS and their data is distributed on multiple servers, so replace AWS by a bunch of people like you and me providing disk space for the data and tada, you can decentralized the database and just give people access to interacting with it directly (through code) or via various front-ends that people would create. […]

If I understand you correctly, there is an open issue for Lemmy for an, I think, similar idea of co-hosting communities.

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

[…] they’re always using the same credentials no matter the website they use and no matter the website they can interact with everything that ever happened on the servers, no one has the power to prevent users from seeing some of the transactions that happened (no admins) because the website they use are just a front used to simplify interaction with the servers. […]

Hm, IIUC, this is one of Bluesky’s issues that the linked blog post was pointing out — if joining the network requires one to mirror all existing data, it makes it prohibitively expensive for anyone to spin up a server to join the network if the size of the network is enormous.