Bluesky managed to go offline practically entirely. I count on you folks to spork the hell out of this.
See also here.
bluesky is more federated than threads, but less federated than mastodon. As I understand it, you can more or less host your own bluesky "instance". Though it is difficult to do and some parts you have to build yourself, it is technically doable. This is not the case on threads, I believe.
The interesting thing is that Bluesky might become federated because of bridges to the fediverse. You would be able to federate with Bluesky with a fediverse server.
Sorry, Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml were down for maintenance again. You were saying?
Can they do it again please?
And the fact that I had no idea kinda disproves your point. I am browsing Lemmy a lot.
And here I have a lemmy.world account because I'm not sure my own instance is that solid 🤕😥
The joke is that most of lemmycels are on lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Not that these instances literally went down.
Because most of the communities are on those 2 instances. In terms of userbase world does have the most users, but they're the exception as other "big" instances are more evenly split.
So instead of a single instance going down we have 2 main instances that need to go down, and even if they go down we'd have lemmee, shitjustworks, lemmyca and blahaj (and I guess also lemmynsfw) communities feeding the feed.
I could absolutely cruise games and memes on shit just works for a day if other instances are down
I agree, having multiple main instance is better than what we had. Also thank you for reminding me lemmynsfw, time for donating.
Please don't explain my joke. Just let it woosh over them.
No idea what a lemmycel is or what that would have to do with bluesky
Slur for lemmy users like redditor for reddit users.
Aren't we lemmings?
UNITE
Oh, but ey wanted to be edgy and offensive
Caught a lemmycel
deleted by creator
Well, this user has posted on feddit.uk with a sh.itjust.works account. I would have been able to see it, but you wouldn't have.
To be honest, lemmy.world AND lemmy.ml could go offline I would barely notice it.
I think I would mainly notice because my whole feed would be wholesome, supportive, and funny.
Fuck you
^/s^
I have them both blocked, so yeah, they aren't that important at all.
i can understand blocking .ml, whats wrong with .world though?
They have "power users" that mod multiples of the largest communities and will delete comments of they disagree with your opinion, citing "civility" or other nonsense, even when you're repeating back exactly what was said to you. So, yeah, abusive moderation.
I'm actually a big fan of the misinformation moderating they're doing on world. It's very Lemmy.ml of them in trying to maintain their political correctness.
I certainly want spreading misinformation, but I'm glad you're enjoying yourself on world.
Purely anecdotal but… the 3 stupidest people I’ve ever met online were all from .world - and there seems to be a propensity for deleting comments that go against their world view. Only knowingly interacted with one .ml poster and they were perfectly decent.
Look at this social butterfly who’s interacted with 3 people
Well, I mean, they might’ve been bots I suppose. Perhaps I’m still an asocial caterpillar but don’t know it…
the 3 stupidest people I’ve ever met online were all from .world
That's a Hell of a claim!
I know, seems wild… To clarify the statement I should have said “interacted with” as opposed to “met”. I’m not on many platforms though - no FB, insta, bebo, friends reunited, the old bird site etc. I used to interact on another site, forget what it was called, maybe Robbit or something like that. I’m on Mastodon but I have a different personality there and don’t use it for posting anyway.
I have a feeling that a few/many/lot of .world users have a very simplistic and binary view of the world where they can’t see that some issues are multifaceted and you can’t just throw out blanket statements. There also seems to be an issue with some people where they don’t/can’t differentiate between opinions versus facts. Opinions are personal whilst facts are (hopefully) empirical.
Rant over.
I’m not on many platforms though - no FB, insta, bebo, friends reunited, the old bird site etc.
I guessed you weren't on Facebook or Xitter as they're full of idiots.
There also seems to be an issue with some people where they don’t/can’t differentiate between opinions versus facts.
Wait until you try sarcasm!
Shit doesn't work
Ah, shit.
also incredibly easy for the federal government to take them out
The German federal government?
Bluesky is US-based. Perhaps you're thinking of Mastodon? It doesn't really matter, though; I'm sure the new censors will block access from the US to any site that is potentially critical of Trump or his administration, regardless of location.
Based on https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/14/24296537/bluesky-acting-up-outage-down it was down for 15-30 minutes and for some it was just read-only.
Lemmy instances regularly go down for maintenance longer than this.
Twitter used to regularly "fail whale" and in the long run no one cares.
Yes, decentralizing is a good thing. Yes, it's fun to poke at BlueSky. But in the long run if you have a product that people want to use then they'll put up with a lot of crap/downtime.
The point is that bluesky has no interest in being actually decentralized, it's just a gimmick
It's more like """federated""".
Assuming people dont make multiple accounts and each server goes offline for maintenance for the same time, wouldnt both one server and multiple servers act the same for the user?
Memes about the Fediverse