While Meta, who says they believe that decentralized social media is the future, tries to block links to federated competitors, @Jay 🦋 and the @Bluesky team are boosting competitors in the space. It's one thing to talk to the talk, but it's another to walk it every chance you get 👏🏼 RE:
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Jay 🦋 (@jay.bsky.team)
Exciting to see new, independent projects spin up to decentralize the atproto ecosystem! Building alternative infrastructure is a big step towards ...
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Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."
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Posting this [@iwriteok.bsky.social](
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) (@iwriteok.bsky.social)
I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
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I'm telling y'all, Google+ was the good place
A reminder that Meta already tried and miserably failed at AI personas in their messaging apps. I would ask why they're trying this again, but I already know that this is a "promo ship" - a vessel for a group of folks to get promoted and nothing else. RE:
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Olivier Simard-Casanova (@o.simardcasanova.net)
Meta is testing, or has started to ship, its AI generated profiles, here on Instagram www.instagram.com/himamaliv #SocialWeb
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Meta moves on from its celebrity lookalike AI chatbots
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My Bluesky Wrapped for 2024! You can get yours at [blueskywrapped.com](https://blueskywrapped.com ) RE:
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Berrak 🥂 (@berrakbiz.bsky.social)
My Bluesky Wrapped for 2024! You can get yours at blueskywrapped.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Some personal news: Excited to team up with [@snarfed.org](
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Ryan (@snarfed.org)
https://snarfed.org
 ) to form A New Social, a non-profit focused on building cross-protocol services and tools for the open social web. It's time for social media to be centered around people, not platforms. Let's build bridges 🌐 [www.anew.social/hello-social...](https://www.anew.social/hello-social-web/ ) [Hello, Social Web 👋🏼](https://www.anew.social/hello-social-web/ )
"That is all to say: the speed at which Meta delivers a product is deliberate. It is not an accident, and Meta is certainly not a company that is resource-constrained. If Meta wants to do something, it will do something." RE:
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Laurens (@laurenshof.online)
New: Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads? Threads' recent update allows for a 2-way connection with the fediverse (caveats ap...
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Can we have a law where companies that talk about MAUs on a feature/product also have to caveat their statements with how many of those AUs were from it being shoved in their faces in so many places that they used it on accident and never on purpose?
Yeah sure why not [www.theverge.com/2024/11/21/2...](
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OpenAI is thinking about making its own browser.
[Link: OpenAI Considers Taking on Google With Browser | https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-considers-taking-on-google-with-browser?rc=v...
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OpenAI is thinking about making its own browser.
[Link: OpenAI Considers Taking on Google With Browser | https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-considers-taking-on-google-with-browser?rc=v...
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Some important context: Bluesky has 20 employees and started the whole project from zero, no starting network or infrastructure. They're also building it in a completely different way than any other social network before it. What Bluesky is accomplishing should not be taken lightly. https://enoki.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe&cid=bafkreid5w4wl4av735bsic3d55bculrz43yue4u2fehx2hnuybhwff4kxm