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Introducing Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky
(bsky.social)
God I can't wait for that website to die already
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My own custom feed is how I get my news.
(lemmy.ml)
The level of control Bluesky gives users with custom feeds is simply incredible. I could recreate the Mastodon newsfeed without any coding whatsoever.
All I had to do was create a feed on Skyfeed that
- Inputs @aendra.com's list of verified news agencies (+ a couple of unofficial news accounts)
- sort using the HackerNews ranking algorithm
That's all I needed to do. Here is my tweaked version of this (no login necessary)..
JSON
{
"displayName": "📰News (Trending)",
"blocks": [
{
"type": "input",
"inputType": "list",
"id": "aaao2rd2fwsmg",
"": 86400,
"listUri": "at://did:plc:kkf4naxqmweop7dv4l2iqqf5/app.bsky.graph.list/3jzmo456b6j2t"
},
{
"type": "input",
"inputType": "list",
"id": "aaaknghipawwq",
"listUri": "at://did:plc:kkf4naxqmweop7dv4l2iqqf5/app.bsky.graph.list/3kc3ye6hmsd2y",
"historySeconds": 86400
},
{
"type": "input",
"inputType": "list",
"id": "aaae7ioefxgno",
"listUri": "at://did:plc:sbl65o3w4adma7vbmovhyciy/app.bsky.graph.list/3krtw4uufwc2u",
"historySeconds": 86400
},
{
"type": "remove",
"subject": "labels",
"value": null,
"id": "aaapxkh2aihps",
"labels": [
"did:plc:bpkpvmwpd3nr2ry4btt55ack/ai-imagery"
]
},
{
"type": "sort",
"sortType": "hn",
"id": "aaaortezvepki",
"gravity": "1.8",
"sortDirection": "desc"
}
],
"license": "EUPL-1.2"
}
It is not well known but there have been numerous scandals which put this trust into question. For example in 2012, a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation UK used his position to place his PR client on Wikipedia’s front page 17 times within a month. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales made extensive edits to the article about himself, removing mentions of co-founder Larry Sanger. In 2007, a prolific editor who claimed to be a graduate professor and was recruited by Wikipedia staff to the Arbitration Committee was revealed to be a 24-year-old college dropout. These are only a few examples, journalist Helen Buyniski has collected much more information about the the rot in Wikipedia.
I don't really understand how decentralization would address the trust and legitimacy problems of Wikipedia. I do see value in adding community wikis to Lemmy, however.
Lemmy is probably the best fedidiverse project so far and it's not even close
Finally some good fucking news
Cursed island
So they're actively working to block ad blockers, showing more ads, and bundling the ad free version with a worse version of Spotify—a no-win scenario.
The Google's breakup can't happen fast enough.
I never thought it would be so easy to stop going on Reddit, but this place is good enough
Apple are the only other ones big enough to throw their weight around. Hopefully they join in.
There are ancaps here?
There shouldn’t be. Can we please start bullying them?
Why would anyone be surprised by this? Zuckerberg would have to be a complete idiot to not use Instagram's existing social graph for Threads.
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To answer your question, it's inertia. People need to be forced of Twitter if before they join Mastodon/Bluesky/Threads