I'm stressed the fuck out this week :blobfoxdizzy: I remember this same exact feeling from 2016 where any sense of optimism was overshadowed by a massive, creeping sense of dread.

It seriously feels like resurfacing trauma from 8 years ago.

#USPolitics #USPol #Election #Politics 

 I'm having a really really bad anxiety day :drgn_sigh:

Have you ever had one of those days where it feels like you have something big and scary to do but there's nothing to do? I feel like I should be studying for a final even though I've been out of school for years. :neofox_shocked: I don't get it. 

 I have a question about BlueSky :blobfoxthinkgoogly:​

So the point of BlueSky is to try to simulate a centralized social media platform with decentralized hardware, right? So, like, what's the incentive to hosting your own BlueSky servers? I can see having a single-user repository for your own data, but there's no reason to host anyone else's personal data, right? :confused_dog:​

With Mastodon, the incentive to host a server comes from the fact that servers are smaller, tighter-knit communities, so hosting your server comes with building a community. What's the incentive on BlueSky?

#BlueSky #BSky #Federation #Mastodon #Fediverse #Fedi #Masto 

 I've seen people talking about Signal a lot lately and the one reason I'm a little hesitant to put all my eggs into the Signal basket is that I'm worried Signal is going to enshittify like all the other centralized platforms have. I trust Signal's security and their apps seem decent, but moving from Telegram to Signal only to have Signal eventually go bad as well concerns me.

It's why I'm using Matrix as my main messenger right now. I like federation. I'm also kinda waiting to see how everything shakes out. :meowshrug: Matrix has some issues and notable security drawbacks, but the most appealing thing to me is that it's decentralized and not at the whims of potential vulture capitalists down the road. The Signal Foundation seems awesome and is well-run, but, being centralized, that *can* change. Plus, on Matrix, I can bridge everything to it and treat it as a modern day Pidgin/Trillian. :blobfox3cevil: 

That said, if you're on Telegram and Matrix seems a little complicated, *try out Signal*. It's much better that Telegram and much more secure (and isn't run by fuckin Nazis).

#Signal #Matrix #Telegram #FOSS #InstantMessenger #Federation