That's cute but as a rule when dealing with the government, physical access is root access

According to police sources, the three words “deny,” “depose,” and “defend” were carved into the live rounds and shell casings
...
The three words bear a striking resemblance to Jay Feinman’s [20]10 book Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claim and What You Can Do About It.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-ceo-bullets-words-engraved-b2659262.html

Bluesky is not making a reddit alternative, a third party developer is using their hosting/auth infrastructure.

https://bsky.app/profile/frontpage.fyi
https://github.com/likeandscribe/frontpage

I asked the devs about this and they said that bluesky is designed to be a) modular b) trustless as much as possible. federation is supposed to happen on the trustless hosting and relay layers - you can ask your posts to be crawled by any indexer/appview.

But once you get to the indexing/querying layer, there are no more merkle proofs to keep everyone honest, so there is no point in federating because any indexer can modify/censor the content they send to another indexer instance. So you could still build an api to interact laterally between servers, but it wouldn't be atproto anymore.

There's a one time purchase to remove ads and a subscription for features like machine translation or importing/exporting your communities. It's $17 yearly or $100 lifetime

Good preview for what's going to happen to the new York times under the new admin :)

The Atlantic is not left leaning journalism lmao. A good rule of thumb is that if you publish David Brooks you're not left leaning

no, no, he has a point

I don't think most of the data in the network should be hosted by a single legal entity, that's just unhealthy even if the protocol is open. It's also my main complaint about bluesky- technically open protocol, de facto centralization.

Hey nobody said they're not attractive to men

Because we live in a capitalist hellscape and the companies that implemented these tricks were the fastest growing segment of our economy for like 15 years (esp after the 2008 crash) so the government turned a blind eye. Now they control the world and are able to literally buy politicians

Things like using surveillance to figure out when your payday is and raising prices (just for you, and just on that day) because you psychologically are more willing to spend in that moment