This was a treat for a fan and someone who played the originals when they were new. Well-made high resolution update to graphics, wonderful new versions of the music by Klepacki & The Tiberian Sons and so many extras. Loved seeing all the takes of the live action videos.

You don’t because everything here’s based on communities while Mastodon is on individual users. If you’d like something that does both in a single platform I think Mbin would be the best bet (although you can interact with Lemmy communities using Mastodon and other microblogging platforms to some extent)

Yeah I think they’ve stopped short of really saying they’re committed to making everything free so expecting them to open more but still not everything is probably what you can realistically count on… we’ll see though.

This is the latest announcement I’ve seen on it: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/open-sourcing-proceeding/24689

Maybe so but being a single division in a company is very different from being an independent company anyway. I would also say that Jolla itself has certainly liked to portray themselves as “doing open source” for a long time but they have not had as concrete plans as the current ones for actually opening the OS up at any point in time before.

Nokia isn’t the same company as Jolla though.

Well more recently they’ve been promising that they will slowly open source it. Not to say there isn’t reason to wait and see on that but there’s at least more reason to be optimistic now than if they hadn’t even said that.

Another vote for NeoDB. It’s been very useful for me and more people on fedi need to know about it.

See here for example: https://mastodon.social/@literalgrill@sakurajima.moe/115685132544946177

Doesn’t get me that excited… The Bsky team is not doing much to help it decentralize and the architecture tends to make it difficult and expensive to do (PDS is far from enough). One suspects these things are by design because they’re planning to make money out of it.

considering it is in the middle of a controversy where the admins are accused of all sorts of things (good old mod drama that wasn’t supposed to exist on Bsky…) I can’t tell if you’re being facetious.

Do you have a proposal for how you’d solve the other half then or just think it isn’t enough?

Well it is fundamentally better because it does not only have a single party that makes all the calls thanks to the real decentralization. I wouldn’t call all of fediverse “the good guys” but I would call it “good”.

Because they’re focused on just user numbers probably and many people from Turkey recently moved there. This decision might of course cause a decline anyway.

Whether anything about it is for a good reason is very much a contested point. There are significant issues they introduced with the design while trying to address some that exist in ActivityPub.

they could also choose to fight it exactly like Twitter under Dorsey did and as Wikipedia did (and won). Instead they’re instantly just obeying and even setting up to obey multiple other countries like Russia too.

Yeah, one of my main gripes with them is how much they talk about decentralization and how much it stays as vaporware while they focus on the more pressing issue of the moment.

Yes and the thread I linked to explained why it is not looking like it’s particularly well thought out for that case. Even beyond those issues they’ve always seemed very naive about what the company turning adversarial would actually be able to do but then again they obviously also have to worry about making money.

I don’t think you got the point tbh. It isn’t about wanting to separate but about how dependent you are on Bluesky Corp. in every other scenario (and how hard it would be to deal with the situation if they decide to go rogue).

seems to be a fairly recent development that isn’t really documented much for now (not that running relays and some other components of the network is that well documented in general). Of course doing it that way also doesn’t help with how centralized the whole thing is…

PDS is not very significant, it’s just a tiny piece of the puzzle and doesn’t really prove anything about the architecture. See this for more on what I’m getting at: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/113365406995624763