Olives @olives@qoto.org

Of course, Bluesky can do it more efficiently, they can do it more efficiently because they are mostly centralized.

"There are all these things which work on Bluesky like like counts despite it being decentralized."
That is because it's not actually decentralized. Also, I think not federating the like counts is more of a *Mastodon issue* than a *fediverse issue*.

Mastodon could do it but it wouldn't be efficient to do so.

Since someone was claiming it again, and how it supposedly solves #FreeSpeech issues... Bluesky is not decentralized.

Please produce transcripts for important podcasts / videos, this is a big accessibility issue.

Bluesky. Is. Not. Decentralized.

Or Neptune is headed towards the Earth, we have to send a small crew of people in a capsule to use this device someone put together in their garage to reverse the magnetic field to stop it.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/india-rupay-upi-payment-push-is-cutting-out-visa-and-mastercard/
"Regulators around the world are notching up scrutiny on Visa and Mastercard over the fees they charge merchants, but India has chosen a different path: Creating rival payment networks that are increasingly sidelining international card networks.

India’s strategy builds on the Unified Payments Interface, known as UPI, a nine-year-old system that lets consumers and merchants bypass traditional card networks by connecting bank accounts directly through QR codes and phone numbers."

Hollywood disaster films be like the Australian continent is headed towards America really fast destroying every island in it's way.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/metas-new-content-policy-will-harm-vulnerable-users-if-it-really-valued-free It's a good piece, although could've focused on FB's failings (focusing on a specific kind of speech) rather than stepping on the #FreeSpeech org landmine of what they ought to remove.

While I could continue to comment on Facebook, I don't think it'll be fruitful to do so without first waiting a while to see if anything happens / any further information comes along.

Now, local politicians across Japan seem to be concerned about financial censorship.

It's tricky to figure out how to react to Facebook here because there isn't really a precedent for their current behavior. So, a lot of it winds up being watch and see.

"random third party org" might come off as a bit harsh, but practically speaking, that is how they might appear.

For context, I only noticed the newer article after I started this thread.

In that light, it is tempting to promote something like this as a superior avenue to go down (or largely in part), however, this too has it's issues.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/metas-new-content-policy-will-harm-vulnerable-users-if-it-really-valued-free For the most part, the article is pretty good (I tend to comment on the negatives first).

Particularly, the more facts that they have to process, the higher the chances there are of things going wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_creep Scope creep can also be an issue.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/metas-new-content-policy-will-harm-vulnerable-users-if-it-really-valued-free Calling out the double standard (what they're focusing on) is smart, but I'd be hesitant to make a piece like this appear like it is calling for any particular kind of censorship.

I get it. No one wants Zuckerberg to be the arbiter of truth, and demoting content based on the say of a random third party org can be problematic. It would also always be a point of friction and contention, particularly when a fact check is considered to be inaccurate.

The EFF's proposed fact checking alternative isn't even that good. Let's suppose someone makes a post debunking an American myth like sex trafficking statistics. A small group of people might decide to "correct" that.