My take on the discontinuation of mozilla.social is that it was a good idea that was underfunded and underdeveloped.
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My take on the discontinuation of mozilla.social is that it was a good idea that was underfunded and underdeveloped. It had the real problem of lacking a meaningful way to fund it, but that wasn't the fault of the people working on it. They did good work with few resources and little support. Shame that a distributed social network isn't as hip in Silicon Valley as pointlessly large matrix multiplications.
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@gabrielesvelto it's an area I think we should be working more in.
I was shocked we were working on a native android client though, almost no value to add and imo antithetical to the web platform / what Mozilla is supposed to be doing
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@dale @gabrielesvelto The more I look at the technical stack, the more the fediverse / ActivityPub seems to be the wrong horse to bet on. What the Bluesky team designed with ATProto is more interesting, at least if you care about decentralization of control.
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@fabrice @gabrielesvelto Thats interesting, I had pretty much discounted bluesky as venture funded openwashing, I don't think the protocol details are hugely important compared to momentum / culture, however the momentum / culture here has felt pretty sticky / dire so far and have seen hints from people that bluesky might be worth checking out so will keep an eye out
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@dale @fabrice @gabrielesvelto definitely not sticky. When you alienate culture drivers such as Black and Brown folks. The fedi has been losing users for sometime now. For active users Bluesky and Threads keep going up. I’m pretty certain Bluesky has just as many active monthly users as the entire fedi
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@damon @fabrice @gabrielesvelto @dale
5 times as big actually:
1.1m MAU for fedi (https://fedidb.org/)
5.4m MAU for bluesky (https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_total.html) -
@laurenshof @fabrice @gabrielesvelto @dale wow that’s insane I had no idea
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@damon @gabrielesvelto @laurenshof @dale The sudden rise in Bluesky users is due to Twitter being banned in Brazil recently.
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@fabrice @gabrielesvelto @laurenshof @dale You’re making that statement to someone that reports on Blue sky. Even if you deduct that amount it’s still several million larger than the desk in MAU. Those same users could’ve went to mastodon yet only a few thousand chose to