Net_Runner :~$

Just like when mastodon.social condemned Meta for their horrible moderation decisions and inability to act properly in the interest of its users, and said that the instance would be cutting ties/not federating with Threads, they kept on federating like nothing happened.

I don’t believe anything coming out of mastodon.social unless I can see action being taken with my own two eyes.

Also, blocking scrapers is very easy, and it has nothing to do with a robots.txt (which they ignore).

Haha sorry, would have responded earlier but am stuck at work

I actually just launched a PHPBB forum for specific interests in regards to the indie web, building websites, and sharing random banter (among a few other things). I find Reddit and Lemmy to be useful for seeing what’s going on in the world overall, and Discord has mostly just been annoying ever since its launch, and forums seem like a good answer to recreating actual communities. And if there are more people who feel this way, maybe they’ll make a comeback (because they definitely haven’t just started to be affected by corporations attempting to centralize everyone to one thing).

And that’s the kicker. Bluesky can never be meaningfully decentralized.

I mean, they’re going to have to. There’s no other choice at this point