Big question, Why ATProtocol from #BlueSkySocial #PBC’s mouth instead of Mastodon and ActivityPub?:

“Why not use ActivityPub? #ActivityPub is a federated social networking technology popularized by #Mastodon.

Account #portability is a major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol. We consider portability to be crucial because it protects #users from sudden bans, server shutdowns, and policy disagreements. Our #solution for portability requires both signed data repositories and #DIDs, neither of which are easy to retrofit into ActivityPub. The migration #tools for ActivityPub are comparatively limited; they require the original server to provide a redirect and cannot migrate the user's previous data.

Another major reason is #scalability. #ActivityPub depends heavily on delivering messages between a wide network of small-to-medium sized nodes, which can cause individual #nodes to be flooded with traffic and generally struggles to provide global views of #activity.”

Short version, WE CANT CONTROL YOU.

<https://atproto.com/guides/faq>

“#Mozilla is made up of several organizations, one of which is the #MozillaCorporation, which develops Firefox and other technologies, and another is its nonprofit and tax-exempt #MozillaFoundation, which oversees Mozilla’s corporate governance structure and sets the browser maker’s policies. Much of Mozilla’s work focused on advocating for #privacy, #inclusion, and #decentralization of #technologies, and “to create #safer, more #transparent online experiences for #everyone,” which ultimately benefit the #browser maker and its #users.

Announcing the layoffs in an email to all employees on October 30, the Mozilla Foundation’s executive director #NabihaSyed confirmed that two of the foundation’s major divisions — #Advocacy and #GlobalPrograms — are “no longer a part of our structure.””

There you go. One side of Mozilla builds the tools of the Internet, the other does… I can’t for the life of me see what. It’s the #MozillaFoundation who cant engineer the tools that are doing “deals” with others to make things safer.

The power to make change for the better of the Internet is being moved from direct impact, ie: basic technology and applied applications TO soft corporate influence through manifestos, papers, jobs and pay for influencers and collaborations with third parties…

I know what is more effective. Basic engineering and applied products because it scales.

#WhiteCollar / #Layoffs / #CorporatePolicy <https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/>

@Schneier_rss

With the new #Trump-#Administration, more and more american #Cloud-#Users will search for european Cloud-#Solutions for advanced #Security-#Features, because they no more trust american #BigTech-#Cloudstorage like #Google or #Microsoft or #Amazon. We all see, how #Musk and his #GoonSquad inspect and infiltrate the Payment-System (luckily stopped at the Moment). At any given Time, they could try this with the Cloudstorage. #Nondisclosure-#Gagorders could make this easier.

@openstreetmap

Millions of us use OSM if only a million users would donate one EUR and another million donate one USD there should not be any problems with OSM regarding budget

Just thinking out loud

@stella @Blyfh yeah, the #lineage that still cared enough about #users to give them some #snares to #trap #wolves for #free

Huh, can you #imagine ?

@zvavybir Your approach & the thought of switching instances somehow remind me of moving from #Whatsapp to #Signal and eventually having to have both
(as the critical mass has not seemed to be reached yet)

#Mastodon currently seems to face a more immediate, more dramatic issue, though.

The active #users & #server count are continuously dropping:
https://mastodon-analytics.com/

It’s *almost* impossible to say whether #X is explicitly suppressing #Democrats, as some #liberals have speculated: The Post’s analysis turned up no direct evidence of manipulation. The shift in attention could reflect changing attitudes among #users who have stuck around, given that many left-wing users have said they left the platform of their own accord, annoyed by #Musk’s antics & X’s redrawn rules.

& when people did see Fodor’s political posts, they were nearly 50X as likely to share them… in the #Instagram app.

#Zuckerberg has a #FirstAmendment right to make decisions about what to promote on his #platforms. But his #users deserve #transparency about what topics are limited — & how Instagram determines what’s over the line. #Meta declined to comment on the account, saying fluctuations in engagement are common & can ebb & flow for reasons that have nothing to do w/its policy.