DuckDuckGo and Kagi managed to figure this out. Bing is the odd one out.

They should probably just make that the default homepage at this point

“Gooigi”

“Green Man”

“The Italian”

“The Adjuster”

“L Man”

“LM”

“LLM”

And so on and so forth

If Bluesky goes, Lemmy will be my permanent home

It’s pretty concise, actually.

This is only great news if you are Mark Zuckerberg and you want a near-monopoly on social media.

Check out Bazzite. It even has a GNOME variant.

Unfortunately, Bridgy Fed is currently opt-in. For a Bluesky user to interact with a Mastodon user, both have to follow the Bridgy Fed account. There is ongoing discussion about Mastodon instance opt-in, and making Bluesky opt-out.

I highly encourage you to participate in this conversation as a Mastodon user.

Well you can nicely ask your instance admin to block Bridgy Fed

Bluesky’s ActivityPub support is also leagues better than Threads because of Bridgy Fed. At least a Bluesky user and a Mastodon user can follow each other and have a back-and-forth conversation.

1. As far as I know, there aren’t any yet. Even if there were, I personally wouldn’t trust them for the same reason I wouldn’t use any Mastodon instance besides mastodon.social: if the PDS shuts down abruptly, your account is gone forever.
2. Bluesky and ATProto are designed specifically to hide the ways in which it’s decentralized.
3. I think this post does a good job visualizing how AtProto is different from ActivityPub.

This is for if you want to host parallel infrastructure. If you only want to self-host your own data, the instructions create a PDS are here, and the instructions to migrate an existing Bluesky account to that PDS are here.

Blame Apple I guess

As a matter of fact, Bluesky originally was supposed to become Twitter’s back end, but it was spun off when Elon took over. Jack Dorsey left and is now promoting nostr and X.

Bluesky is way more approachable than Mastodon. Most people don’t want to have to learn what an instance is.

The Philadelphia Inquirer has. The problem is that Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care what the editorial boards of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Times, or the Washington Post have to say about him.

Because there are a lot of dishonest people who claim they’re only criticizing Hamas, when they are actually calling for violence against all Palestinians.

“Harbu Darbu” is a perfect example of that.

People here just downvote anything they don’t like even if it’s in its own community

Depends on the server you’re on. Lemmy found popularity when a group of communists had their subreddit(s)banned

That’s actually part of the reason why the original devs started Lemmy.

Finally, a competitive YouTube alternative