There are some people hosting their own identity server, but yes the centralisation of the main aggregator server seems to be by design as they even scare people away from trying by talking about the high resource requirements of doing so.

IMHO Bluesky is only federated in the sense that responsibility for content and moderation can be outsourced, but the user endpoint stays mostly in control of Bluesky. This makes a lot of sense if you think about it from a company perspective… outsource the legally and personnel critical parts and keep the ones that are lucrarive for advertisement and can be easily scaled by throwing hardware at it.

But you must be a real sucker to take them up on that very one sided offer…

Bluesky is explicitly promoting their system as “choose your own censorship” kind of deal, which in the way it is framed could look very attractive to right-wingers looking for an alternative platform. While this is technically also true for the Fediverse, it isn’t promoted as such, and rather has a reputation for the opposite, as most fedi server admins are center-left leaning.

Bluesky might be also more left-leaning right now as obviously there is little reason for right-wingers elsewhere to switch away from Shitter to another (mostly) centralised platform, but given the overall low user numbers this could switch very quickly.

I guess we will have to see how this develops over time and get some answers from Brazilians that have a deeper understanding of the current social dynamics there.

Due to the language divide it might end up as two distinct social spheres, like Fedi’s Japanese bubble, but that’s a best case scenario for Bluesky I guess.

It would be interesting to know more about the additional users. The banning of Shitter in Brazil is very much tied to internal politics and AFAIK it might be the Brazilian equivalent to MAGA that is currently mass-migrating to Bluesky.

If so, this might be a bad thing for them, as they probably don’t want to get perceived as the Brazilian truth.social.

This is kinda the same idea but made for what you originally asked for: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

“Everyone”? I know exactly zero people that have admitted to having a Bluesky account, but I know plenty that have an Mastodon etc. one.

I think this is at most a very regional or specific user bubble thing, and official user numbers for these commercial services are never trustworthy.

XMPP via its pubsub implementation could function similar to ActivityPub, but that part of XMPP is a bit neglected as few apps use it for anything more complex. XMPP’s real strength is in real-time communication and I think it’s good to stick with that.

This is so painfully obvious that I have a hard time assuming good faith argumentation when people come up with the “population question”.

I think XMPP is a nice supplement to ActivityPub instances for more private chat. You can quite easily hook the user database of Mastodon or Lemmy to an XMPP server and have the same user address work for both that way.

Reading such articles, I feel like a hermit or something. I never stopped doing these things they describe as “going back to” and thinking about it, there really isn’t any such algorithm I ever used or felt a need for.

We also have a dedicated community here: https://slrpnk.net/c/fiction

Yes, this is a good observation, but the question is what is really the cause of this? Clearly it isn’t economics alone. I would guess it is mostly due to specific family dynamics and this wouldn’t necessarily extend to non-biological extended “families” of your choosing.

Wordpress is a pile of decades old php code* that is held together with string and tape pretty much.

*php isn’t the problem itself, modern php is actually pretty nice.

Given how crufty Wordpress is, I don’t even dare to imagine how bad the Tumblr backend must be that this is seen as an improvement by the developers.

You could write a review on Bookwym: https://books.solarpunk.moe/

Is there a link you forgot to add or further commentary about how this relates to Solarpunk?

They are working on that, yes.

But I would rather have no threads than those like Element has… what a mess 🫠

This place is ok for it, I just think your introduction is a bit too nebulous.

IRC can actually be quite good. The main problem is the super outdated popular networks like libera.chat, but if your run your own IRC server with modern clients it works nicely (or you can use a good bouncer like Soju). Supplement it with a Mumble or Jitsi-meet server and you got at least a functional equivalent to Discord, even though of course not nearly as polished or easy to use as Discord.

The Solarpunk Manifesto already sums up a lot of this. Otherwise I feel your question is maybe a bit too open ended to gather ideas here? At least I struggled a bit it coming up with a response ☺️

Certainly that is the aim here, but since there is just a lot of negative stuff happening right now, it is something we also have to deal with.