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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.

I don't use Mastadon cause I don't care for micro-blogging, but nevertheless, I like this.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is not true.

The App view, relay, PDS, and mobile app, code is all open source. Anyone can spin up their own version if they want.

If you want a complete copy of bluesky (reflecting the bluesky post firehose) it's prohibitively expensive, but you can spin up your own version if you want.

The only thing that's missing is bluesky federating anything other than PDSes by default, but you can 100% go in the other direction.

A good overview is here: What bluesky is and what bluesky is not

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I wonder if we’ll see p2p versions of the firehose so people can seed posts from accounts they trust/like as a way to make firehoses affordable for the public to run

Especially considering the lead dev was the creator of beaker browser https://beakerbrowser.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

More than likely we'll see in/outbox functionality similar to activitypub, so the PDSes could interop with ActivityPub and individually talk to one another