I disagree, and Gmail and Facebook do engage in censorship by hiding stuff the advertisers that pay for it don’t want you to see or be themselves associated with. That’s not even close to what moderation is and confusing the two things as “just two perspectives” is not helpful at all, as you end up justifying censorship through that.

I think you (and the Nostr people as well) are just muddling terms here. Censorship is about an external 3rd party (usually the Government) preventing you from seeing things you are potentially interested in, not (as in the case of Lemmy) your service provider and their trusted moderators helping you curate your social media experience. If you are unhappy with the moderation you can easily switch to another instance and use other communities.

Apple also runs an ad business these days and their devices collect more types of data than stock Android does. And contrary to many Android phones there is very little you can do against that in Apple devices.

Storage space and bandwidth, as well as compute for re-coding lower resolution versions (although you can do that on another machine these days).

A cheap VPS will probably be insufficient rather soon, but something around 50€ a month should do it for quite a while.

The default Android on them is pretty standard including Google Play services, so it is not great in regards to privacy (but could be worse, like a Apple or so).

But for most of their models you can find good alternative Android roms or even mobile Linux distributions like PostmarketOS.

The OG Lemmy meme is shower heads.

Signal as a centralized meta-data honeypot.

Instance admins can “purge” it, but it is only local to that specific instance.

The people behind this are bitcoin shills.

It’s a bit confusing at first that it comes with a read only web-interface, but once you got a Mastodon app or an frontend like Phanpy set up with it, it works quite well.

Afaik it was an internal project at Twitter at first that was spunn off as a seperate company some time before Elon Musk bought Twitter. Jack Doresy only invested some start capital and was a board member for a while.

A bridge by definition does not make Bluesky compatible with ActivityPub and also does not make it part of the Fediverse. There used to be bridges to Twitter as well, but that doesn’t mean Twitter supports activitypub or is part of the Fediverse.

Not between platforms but within the Fediverse. Bluesky is not part of the Fediverse.

If Bluesky was just another ActivityPub using site you could just defederate from it. This isn’t really possible when there are many bridges that relay messages.

But you also seem to have completely misunderstood what people objected to about the ATProto bridge. It wasn’t the optional possibility to reach people on Bluesky. It was the automatic opt-in that most people objected to.

I didn’t claim that it wasn’t open-source. And a 3rd party bridge doesn’t make it compatible with ActivityPub.

Misskey and Mastodon are two different types of open-source software for running a social media microblogging website that can interact with each other through the ActivityPub standard.

Bluesky is a similar but incompatible software run by a single company that was founded by ex-Twitter employees and is funded by billionaires and cryptocurrency scammers.

What makes you think so? It seems rather openly “leftist” at least for US standards.

Since they run their site through Clownflare, it looks like they are hosted in the US, but their server is actually in Finland (at least as far as I know, might have changed recently).

I think one reason has to do with digital sovereignty. Especially people in Europe are not happy with the dominance of US based social media sites and thus are more likely to invest time and effort into local alternatives. They are also more likely to be concerned about the near total lack of legal privacy protections in the US.

Small correction: slrpnk.net is hosted in Portugal and not Germany, but we do have a German speaking admin and our founder is Italian.