Most of them are joking about reuniting with their Chinese spy

In all likelihood, Red Note will be banned banned, probably before the Red Note devs add a built-in translate function.

The TikTok ban is something Mark Zuckerberg lobbied for. It’s not a good thing.

Calling China “West Taiwan” undermines Taiwanese independence.

That’s a misreading of the headline. Pro-LGBT speech IS allowed, but often suppressed.

DuckDuckGo and Kagi managed to figure this out. Bing is the odd one out.

They should probably just make that the default homepage at this point

If Bluesky goes, Lemmy will be my permanent home

It has Bluesky support. Neat!

This is only great news if you are Mark Zuckerberg and you want a near-monopoly on social media.

1. As far as I know, there aren’t any yet. Even if there were, I personally wouldn’t trust them for the same reason I wouldn’t use any Mastodon instance besides mastodon.social: if the PDS shuts down abruptly, your account is gone forever.
2. Bluesky and ATProto are designed specifically to hide the ways in which it’s decentralized.
3. I think this post does a good job visualizing how AtProto is different from ActivityPub.

This is for if you want to host parallel infrastructure. If you only want to self-host your own data, the instructions create a PDS are here, and the instructions to migrate an existing Bluesky account to that PDS are here.

I’m begging google to just bring back YouTube Premium Lite and expand it

Because there are a lot of dishonest people who claim they’re only criticizing Hamas, when they are actually calling for violence against all Palestinians.

“Harbu Darbu” is a perfect example of that.

Finally, a competitive YouTube alternative

Masterful gambit sir

I wouldn’t really compare Bluesky to Mastodon. Ultimately, the Bluesky team still has control over what’s allowed on the app and what’s allowed on the network until third parties launch their own AppViews and relays.

Tankies are the reason why Lemmy exists in the first place.

Lemmy is probably the best fedidiverse project so far and it’s not even close

There’s an upcoming project to bridge Mastodon, nostr, and Bluesky, but it’s not out yet.