Relay only costs a few hundred to run, regular people are already doing this. Also have Jetstream as a lightweight alternative.

Barrier is running your own AppView, but people working on that:

https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q

The lack of decentralisation atm is not inherent and reflects the early growth stage. If they started to act like wanks there’d be a greater push to fork and build up parallel instances. Last I checked they were still working on improving the scalability of the protocol before building it out.

It isn’t proprietary though. You can run your own instance. Not decentralised atm but nothing indicating they aren’t pushing towards that.

Article is paywalled but had no idea either.

I’ve just not used fb or insta for years but I asked my wife who uses both regularly and she hadn’t heard of it either.

WhatsApp is encrypted and much less open to manipulation. Will be switching to matrix once 2.0 is stable and recommendable.

It’s so weird to me that people still use Facebook. Nobody under 40 uses Facebook. The women use insta sure but literally what are you going on Facebook for. It’s only boomer hate groups on there now

No

You get ones that flash when you’re doing too much pressure.

Fuck up

Not really. He scammed Trump into the White House and there will be a lot of suffering and death in his mass deportation plans.

Elon has really helped ramped up the societal breakdown by messing with the x algorithm. People are losing the plot.

Slow news day? Who gives a literal fuck

Elons carrying his kids around as human shields so there’s that.

How much more ADHD can I really get at this point ?

They’re not obfuscating the trail. Just plain old theft.

I will if I can get close enough.

Defund this fascist bozo already who cares.

Oh no not my data!

I mean are those people really going to be using Twitter anyway?

They think they look good tho

All these answers are wrong you want Stremio.