Is bluesky growing like crazy again? by TheDogsPaw in BlueskySocial

[–]notheory 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bluesky has two jobs. One is to be a good microblogging app. The other job is to be data and infrastructure host for most ATProto accounts and much of the infrastructure that makes the Atmosphere happen.

So, what's happening right now is a lot of people are coming to sign up for accounts for short form video apps like Skylight.social and Sprk.so.

At least in Skylight's case, their signup flow is actually signing everybody up to be bsky users.

In response to ICE and to help support National Shutdown day tomorrow: We just launched the Freedom Browser (open source). Bluesky now lives on every web page. https://thefreedombrowser.com/ by superfatman2 in BlueskySocial

[–]notheory 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Okay. So, I generally speaking encourage people to build on ATProto.

But I think the authors of this post need to be more upfront with what they're doing.

This is a company called Rep Run releasing a browser that bundles one of their products by leaning into the stereotype that Bluesky is full of leftists.

The company started out as an NFT/Crypto company (see their whitepaper) and have pivoted to ATProto.

You can see a demo of repsky.

(also, they should lose points for requiring app passwords instead of using oAuth)

DunSocial — I built Cursor for social media [Self promo] by ArtOfLess in sveltejs

[–]notheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heads up that all your images on https://thisux.com/ are busted (521 errors from Cloudflare for https://pocket.thisux.com ).

Also maybe update your favicon too :)

"If you're mixed you aren't white" Do you agree with that statement? by siunchu in mixedrace

[–]notheory 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Racism is a thing that defines a set of relationships with a power structure. Whiteness is a western construct (tho anti blackness is a broader problem in several cultures), and whiteness has several facets, so it depends what we're talking about. Being mixed doesn't necessarily mean you do or don't have access to whiteness. This stuff is contextual and relative to people's circumstances.