Personally, I’m excited there’s a decentralized option that’s super popular. Yes, relatively very few run their own PDS, but if the main bsky instance becomes a problem for anyone, people can easily migrate.
It’s not just data ownership either; The AT protocol supports community-built algorithms, relays, and app views.
I’m running my own PDS on the AT Protocol 🤷♂️
Two words: Nomadic identity
This. People have been given an alternate reality to live in, so complex and all-encompassing that—unless they’ve grown up to have an appreciation for critical thinking—all the thinking’s been done for them.
Longest running meme in history
The cellular-bananular phone changed my life. I still sing it to this day
Modern astrophysics exists because a house fell on a teenage orphan.
Who as a result got adopted by a prince.
He got access to a royal lab for glassmaking.
Then he tried fixing color aberration in his microscope lenses.
Then he noticed the rainbow had holes in it. Huh.
Then he died. Glassmaking and tuberculosis are fast friends.
Then Bunsen invented his burner, which made spectra that matched the rainbow holes. Huh.
Now we know what stars and planetary atmospheres are made of!
And for trying to pull the group along, as futile as it may be.
I respect it. We need more of this.
So night is just really weak day
all of them
That must’ve been tough to do. You have the respect of at least one internet stranger 🫡
Truth Social should be next
This is a brilliant piece
Dr. Blitz called Simulation Theory religion for tech bros and I can’t get it out of my head 😅
All Trump’s gotta do is blame the Dems. Already going that route