There is a stupid new California law, which requires that all operating systems must demand the age of any user, and then the OS must implement an API through which any application can ask which is the age of the current user.This information is supposed to be passed by browsers to the sites you visit, so that they would implement age verification.The requirements of the law are incredibly stupid and for now they are trivial to circumvent, but the fear is that this is only the beginning. After t

Loops uses ActivityPub and the Fediverse as it's decentralization model (it's created by dansup, the dev of Pixelfed). The implementaion details, i.e. what's federated and how, are probably still fleshed out. It's the first project trying to bring the TikTok-style video feed to the Fediverse, so there's not much prior art.

That is definitely the case in anything I've bought from them.

It's not the website. There is no name resolution resolving to the domain wedistribute.org.There were two hosts recorded in the DNS history:auth.wedistribute.org 216.249.100.234social.wedistribute.org 24.199.69.82which no longer exist (i.e. unreachable, due to DNS of their domain failing now)

Because it's the first step.“Information, once collected, will be misused.”― Richard Stallman, How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?, 2013

This article about the AT protocol (which Bluesky uses) provides a good argument for why alternative social media sites like will help prevent this feeling of lock-in in the future and is worth a read: https://overreacted.io/open-social/

Unless you depend on Facebook for your livelihood, then this is a false equivalence.

> The decision to keep Hollow closed source isn’t about restricting users, it’s about ensuring stability while maximizing customization through plugins and themes. you can extend it freely using the plugin system, much like how browsers allow extensions without requiring users to alter their source code.This is the worst take about open source software I've seen in a while.First impressions are everything, and as it stands, I 100% do not trust you as a sole developer. Like seriously, as a dude t

I don't think you understood their point at all. "Don't use it" isn't necessarily a valid choice when it's where all of your friends and/or family are. The "investment" is not monetary; instead, it takes the form of having connections on the platform. You are invested in the platform if your primary connection to someone is hosted there, and it costs a ton of time and effort to transfer that somewhere else.

Is it possible to use bluesky without a did:plc? Id rather be in control of my own identity than leave it irreversibly in the hands of yet another overlord.