Great use of AI, honestly. Just mass spam takedown notices to anyone who mentions your products. Not like there’s any sort of repercussions for sending baseless legal threats.

The inaccuracy really gets me amped.

We’ve been doing that the whole time

Yeah that’s the problem haha

Also there’s still the selling point of “Our bulb uses 10% of what a “real” light bulb uses!”

More like “oh man, only 60 watts, that’s not very bright”.

Are we still rating bulbs in watts?

AP is currently not working self-hosted.

Thanks!

FDroid apps are for all Android users…

Yes, as soon as 99%+ of the users aren’t on the same server. That’s the bottom line. We can argue theory all day but it doesn’t change the implications of centralization.

Over the last few weeks hundreds of people have moved their accounts to the new blacksky.app PDS, and they’re running an early version of their app at blacksky.community

I’ve spent…quite a bit of time intentionally looking for alternative ATP servers and this is the first time I’ve heard of this. And I’m balls deep in this stuff. I even run my own AP server. So I’d say it’s so obscure as to be meaningless.

99.99% of the users are still on infrastructure run by Bluesky PBC…but looking at all the progress and activity, it sure seems to me that’s in the process of changing.

My guy. LOL. No. Just no. It isn’t.

so many people in the Fediverse present the fact that 99.99% of Bluesky users are still using infrastructrure run by Bluesky PBC as if it’s a gotcha

I mean…yeah? It is.

They just prefer to invest their time and energy in working to improve the situation

And we prefer to invest our time and energy into supporting an actually decentralized protocol.

rather than arguing about the semantics of “decentralization.”

At what point was anyone arguing semantics?

So can we please stop arguing about this already?

Yes, please, go ahead.

No, I think 0.01% of all Android users are using a custom ROM that allows bypassing Google’s shitfuckery.

“minority” = <50%. Very different from 0.01%

I had no idea. Just like you don’t know what AirPlay is.

When I didn’t know, I looked it up

You seem to have forgotten about the steaming device/box similar to the AppleTV; one that doesn’t have ads on the home screen.

Take any Google TV box and install a different launcher. Boom. Ads gone.

I’m asking for a computer. Not a Chromebook or tablet.

I dont know what you think a computer is, but they are.

I mean Airplay.

Never heard of it before, but sounds a lot like Spotify Connect. Or Google Cast. So, yes.

Which first party watch does Google make for android?

It’s called, get this, Pixel Watch

What computer?

Take your pick. There are thousands of ChromeBooks and Android tablets.

Does Google have an audio only streaming protocol that’s in third party devices?

…you mean Bluetooth?

A home streamer without ads on the Home Screen?

What is a “home streamer”?

A first party watch?

LOL, yes, but that’s not actually do anything, that’s just existing.

A computer that isn’t a web browser running on low powered hardware?

Once again, yes, but also not something you do, just existing.

ATProto is open. Bluesky is not.

Not a distinction worth making when 99+% are all on the same server.

when 99% of users were on Mastodon GmbH’s server

99% of the 12 users? Again, BSky is tens of millions of users. Why is it you think they’re all on the same server?

And in theory ATProto is defined open enough that it is possible to implement it independently from Bluesky.

Then why is no one doing it?

Anyone who wants apps from outside Google Play? 🤷

Oh good point

People are arguing because ATProto is not open. And that couldn’t be more clear in the simple fact that BSky hosts tens of millions of users, 99.95% of “the ATmosphere”. While AP has <1% of the number of users and yet they’re strewn across tens of thousands of servers.

We’ve already seen the implications of such closure in the silencing of users by foreign govts, silencing of users in an entire state, and enforcement of draconian ID laws on millions of users in the EU. Meanwhile AP is largely unaffected.

And BSky is still taking the Silicon Valley approach of “we’ll figure out how to make money later”, to which the answers are the same as every other social platform. They’re not funded by donations, they’re funded by investments from investors who expect to see a profit eventually.

Yes but there are many other advantages like processing power, battery life, etc.

If you remember the story, their predictions were not completely accurate either. That was the basis of the whole story.

Anything you can do in the Apple ecosystem you can do in the Google ecosystem.