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I’m literally moving my mastodon instance by car right now
People have containerized (like literal shipping containers that comply with ISO 668 and its successors, not just software like Docker) data centers that can operate wherever they can hook up power. Put some antennas or satellite receivers on the outside, and you might be able to literally have services running from a moving vehicle or ship.
Like Pump up the Volume but instead of radio it’s fedi!
Honestly… Ya, literally any extra steps in signing up or slight bit of confusion is enough to make the average person give up and go back to whatever platform they are comfortable with. I’ve talked to people who dispise twitter but won’t even switch to Bluesky because the extra dot in the user handle is too weird for them.
Yeah honestly they should make cars with one pedal. Two is just way to confusing for the average person.
Conflating ease of operation with ease of sign up. Have you ever tried to read an article online and something pops up and you left the page, even if it wasn’t necessarily trying to get you to log in? That’s the sort of thing they’re talking about.
One-pedal driving is a feature in a number of modern cars.
The difference is more like automatic vs manual transmission. If you’ve only ever used automatic, the mere idea of gears to push is enough to scare most people out of learning. It’s the same with servers/instances and social media
Edit: spelling
Does anyone actually say this though? I don’t think anyone who joined Bluesky did so for federation - they joined because it’s not Twitter.
You forgot, it’s also not mastodon.
I joined because it lets me use my domain as my username without having to host an instance.
Mastodon instances keep deactivating my accounts when I don’t post anything for two weeks, so yeah. Bsky it is.
I don’t think that’s standard. I’m on mastodon.social where I haven’t posted in forever and it’s still there
I’ll admit, I just stopped trying after it happened a few times. It doesn’t offer anything worth the headache of selecting an instance. Also when I was trying mastodon.social wasn’t available, I think? Don’t remember any more.
The headache of selecting an instance is why i chose mastodon.social and lemmy.ml. I just join the one made by the developers of the thing
The Internet is just a fad. Wait until everyone logs into a single central server in Virginia. One database is all you need for Earth.
ICYMI, someone did run a GoToSocial instance on their car https://masto.doskel.net/@doskel/113884312225881269
And snac2 on a 4G hotspot, https://snac-mifi.vea.st/chloe/p/-1225603012.1737666104
I think that what a lot of people don’t realize is that BlueSky is federated in order to make their corporate infrastructure stronger and easier for them to operate.
Samsung Smart fridge instance coming soon?
Unless the instance can run in Doom, I’m not interested.
I’ll take three!
What I am unsure about is whether this is a BS or AT thing. There are people expressing interest in using AT to make versions of other popular services (like TikTok, Instagram, etc) but would they face similar costs to run a relay? If so, and it would mean you either need VC or charity backing (millionaires either way), I fail to see the point when we already have everything chugging along here on AP - with an investment of a fraction of that money we could make on-boarding slicker and help iron out other niggles that occur when you are developing on a shoestring.
There are people expressing interest in using AT to make versions of other popular services (like TikTok, Instagram, etc) but would they face similar costs to run a relay
Most non-Bluesky App Views I know about (WhiteWind, frontpage.fyi, BookHive) just use BlueSky’s.
I fail to see the point when we already have everything chugging along here on AP - with an investment of a fraction of that money we could make on-boarding slicker and help iron out other niggles that occur when you are developing on a shoestring.
You’re failing to consider how this would benefit the shareholders! My portfolio line must go up!
