Ephera

I’m rather guessing the other way around. Because they can’t directly extract money from this, they can’t justify to their shareholders to sit down full-time devs. Instead, this is a project solely run by interns and student.

I believe, people are mostly annoyed that Bluesky started yet another (half-baked) standard, rather than throwing their weight behind ActivityPub.

This would be fine, if they were decidedly a for-profit company, but their whole branding is that they want to benefit humanity.

It’s also weird that the former CEO of Twitter is involved.
The guy could have pushed Twitter into that direction, but apparently, he needed a separate project to have this change of heart.

Like, I don’t know, they’ve got some things that look alright:

• They’ve open-sourced some things.
• It’s legally a Public Benefit Company.
• They’ve got the creator of XMPP on board, so that at least makes it credible that they genuinely want to come up with a better protocol.
• Their CEO is a techie.

But yeah, I’m still worried, it ends up being a bait-and-switch. Make it all look good for now and once enough users have signed up, slowly transition to just becoming yet another Twitter.

What I could theoretically imagine, is that an extension could give it a custom URL scheme, like mastodon://mastodon.social/v1/..., and then the various Mastodon apps could register an intent/open handler for that. But yeah, again, quite a bit of effort.

Alternatively, the apps could offer a secondary Share-action, which tries to open the link instead of creating a post from it…

As has been said, this is not easily possible, but a workaround in Fedilab is to copy the link and paste it into the search bar inside the app. So, not super convenient, but at least you’ll be logged in and can interact with the post. This might also work with the other apps, I’m not sure…

Yeah, you would have to maintain a list of all Mastodon instance domain names, and Google requires this list to be baked in at build time of the app, so updating it requires updating the whole app and there’s no way to dynamically detect that this link is a Mastodon link.

This isn’t to say that it can’t be done, Newpipe does this for Invidious/Piped instances, but yeah, it’s a good bit of work…

Yeah, been considering migrating to a non-Mastodon instance. Not sure where, though. Wouldn’t mind using Lemmy as my entrypoint to the Fediverse, but I don’t think, you can follow individual users here…

Oh yeah, I have no problem with using a metaphor, whether it’s from a religious book or not. It just weirds me out how it is told as if it’s a historical record with no doubt of it having happened that way.

For an atheist, the stories in religious books are more like fables – you don’t believe that it happened that way, but you can still draw a learning from it. And when talking of fables, you don’t recount them as facts, rather you point out every few sentences that you’re simply recounting what’s being told in the book.

You can do that in a neutral way, too, where you just say “the Bible reads…” and then people can choose to believe in it or not. And this text rarely does that, while also throwing in some opposite tropes. Had the author not stated that they’re an atheist, I would have assumed they’re basically a religious fundamentalist.

This is the most often I’ve read someone talk of “God” or the bible in an assertive stance in many months and it’s from a self-proclaimed atheist no less. 😵‍💫

I wonder, if the Wired editors made him change it, so that no religious people would be offended…

Yeah, I was joking. Some people only want to be Twitter-verified to look important, and they can get that same pseudo-important look on Mastodon by just putting the blue-checkmark-emoji into their display name. Anyone can do that, so yeah, it certainly doesn’t verify anything…

Step 1: Type :verified: into your display name. 🙃