MentalEdge

There are. In most states.

He's having the suits filed specifically in one of the few states that don't.

You do realize Bluesky also tacks on .bsky.social? (Though with a dot instead of a second @)

And even without other instances, ATProto already allows people to sign up using domains they own.

The closest you can get to using Lost_My_Mind as you Bluesky handle is by aquiring a domain like lost_my_mind.com. And that still wouldn't prevent someone else from signing up using lost_my_mind.net.

And that's before pointing out that Impersonation and mistaken identities isn't a solved problem on twitter, either.

Bluesky is succeeding because its a smooth and familiar experience that obfuscates away the complexity of how it works.

Absolutely nothing about how the ActivityPub network works conceptually prevents it from being an equally smooth experience, given the work were put in.

Your first six paragraphs hit the mark, but the following rant about the "username univerasility problem" ain't it.

No.

But they don't need to be. They're essentially just indexers.

If two relays index all the same content, then any services using either will be "interconnected" in the sense that any users can see each other and interact with each other.

Each relay host can choose what parts of the network they want to index, and as far as I can tell, any services could use multiple relays if they like.

I know.

ATproto has some interesting advantages, and eventually the idea is for anyone to be able to host any microservice component of the network, including relays other than the one run by Bluesky.

The relays don't need to be centralized. They are indexers that provide functionality to others parts of the ATproto network.

The problem is that there isn't really any incentive to do so... Any additional instances or new apps running ATproto can just rely on the one big indexer provided by Bluesky, instead of running each microservice component themselves.

I won't be joining in until I can actually run a real instance on my own.

I don't plan on doing that, but the important part is knowing that I could.

No.

So... Is that kinda like a linux subsystem for windows?

I'm sarcastically referring to microsofts telemetry, UI changes, and anything else they try to sell that a lot of people simply don't want or like.

I'm on the Index. Afaik steamvr is the only thing that really works on linux.

Ah! A fellow beat saber enjoyer.

Bows in the customary way that is visible in multiplayer

I'd argue that a lot of the other "additions" and "improvements" make any improvement in comfort irrelevant, as they are unbearable.

On a sidenote, you can set up a generic bottle in Bottles, and then set things up so that double clicking any miscellaneous .exe files just runs them in that bottle.

I still want more Revengeance. That sequel bait at the end still hurts.