Bluesky is the most downloaded social app at the moment. Hope they can handle the influx

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lasmkmv6t22l

Not sure. You can run your own instance right now so they have enabled that but you can’t yet federate with the main instance. I believe you can store your own data in your own instance though but I’m not sure.

So you are of the opinion that the bluesky devs are currently lying about working to get it federated?

No elon involved so it has an enormous advantage over Twitter

I’ve been hearing that since 2007

The plan for bluesky to for people to start their own instances and decentralize.

I upgraded to 11 and honestly it’s about the same. Very familiar and fast. I’ve had no problems with it in the 3 years I’ve been using it. If I had the preference I’d use 10 but only by a very slim margin as they are virtually identical in day to day usage. I do think it’s faster.

Winds would blow fallout all over Russia. China/India would break off economic ties. Also nukes wouldn’t end the war anyway.

Shylophone, shaver, shenon…checksh out.

DEFINITELY not first try. I was there in their first try… and second… Still didn’t see it launch.

What woman is going to trust a man not to instantly change her life.

At least it’s free for them now!

Interesting. What do you think about drawn images? Is there a limit to how will the artist can be at drawing/painting? Stick figures vs life like paintings. Interesting line to consider.

Next you’re going to tell me that lemmy is one of these dirty dirty apps

U.S. wouldn’t be taking over… it could be a New Zealand company for all the u.s. cares.

The u.s. still wouldn’t control the algorithm even if bytedance sold because they are not required to sell to a u.s. company. As long as the new company isn’t controlled by the ccp(or probably also russ, n Korea, iran) the u.s. doesn’t care who owns it.

They are free to sell to non American companies just fine as long as the new company is not ultimately controlled by the Chinese government.

Non-sensationalized summary from the article:

Although Section 702 authorizes electronic surveillance of non-US people overseas, the official summary of the reauthorization bill notes that "information about US persons may incidentally be acquired by this type of surveillance and subsequently searched or ‘queried’ under certain circumstances.”

The reauthorization bill imposes some new limits on data collection. For example, FBI personnel must obtain prior approval from an FBI supervisor or attorney before making queries about US people. But this provision has an exception allowing such queries without prior approval if “the query could assist in mitigating or eliminating a threat to life or serious bodily harm.”

There are also some new limits on queries involving elected US officials, political candidates, political organizations, media organizations, journalists, and religious groups. There is a prohibition on “the involvement of political appointees in the approval process for such politically sensitive query requests,” and a requirement that the FBI director "establish consequences for noncompliant querying of US person terms, including zero tolerance for willful misconduct.”

They are not banning the content type that tiktok provides, they are banning the foreign authoritarian government control of American user information. If Bytedance Sells tiktok to a business in a non authoritarian state then they no longer care.

Sheesh I feel SLAMMED