I've heard good things about Sharkey, it's what blahaj uses for their microblog stuff.
There's also Iceshrimp, though last I heard they were becoming their own thing written in C#.
The others I know about don't seem to be maintained. Can't speak to using them, I find the interface far too busy (default Mastodon UI users).
This is straight up misinformation, Dorsey was on the Bluesky's board, but left in May. As far as I'm aware, he's never even invested in the company (but he has given money to the nostr devs).
You can write backbends in Typescript, It's what the *keys use.
What do you mean by handwriting features? I've played around with Write a bit and it has some cool features (I really like the ability to make a series of stokes a link) but I wouldn't call them handwriting features.
handwriting app that works on a lot of platforms including Linux which cannot be said about most handwritten note-taking applications
To be fair, we have it quite good in this regard between Xournalpp and Rnote. Certainly areas where we only have worse options.
As someone who spends more money than I should on music from Bandcamp, I'm interested to see if they ever get payments working. I remember people talking about a federated BC alternative, where the 10% platform fee goes to the instance you're on, when they got bought by that music licensing company.
Also, first paragraph under "Integrating with the Fediverse", you put Bandcamp when I think you meant Bandwagon.
Yeah, I'm not going to defend Mastodon's frankly bizarre Like system. It's not even a privacy thing as favourites are fully public.
It simply can’t really happen due to the technical way Mastodon and Lemmy function. I’m not sure if there is a way to address this on either side (or if the developers would be willing to do so even if there was).
Mastodon needs to implement group support, you can follow the issue here (don't get your hopes up though).
Their app is open source, but it doesn't give any instructions on how to self-host it, in fact it seems to not have been designed with self-hosting in mind given the forking section of the ReadMe:
You have our blessing 🪄✨ to fork this application! However, it's very important to be clear to users when you're giving them a fork.
Please be sure to:
- Change all branding in the repository and UI to clearly differentiate from Bluesky.
- Change any support links (feedback, email, terms of service, etc) to your own systems.
- Replace any analytics or error-collection systems with your own so we don't get super confused.
The impression I get from Bluesky is that it doesn't view federation as a core feature of its platform, just a nice technical oddity. I'm no expert on the AT protocol, but from a quick skim of the quickstart, their view of federation seems to be having disparate data repositories (Personal Data Servers) app developers can put their app data into. It doesn't really seems to be about different software communicating with each other.
In contrast, ActivityPub is about passing JSON between servers in a somewhat standard format so different software can reasonably understand what that JSON represents and act on it in a way that makes sense for that software.
(But again, I'm don't know anything about the AT protocol, I could be completely wrong here)
Feddit.uk makes our finances public, about £35 a month. So about £0.11 per active user.
Also, I run sappho.social out of a £5 a month VPS.
There was/is a wave of far-right riots happening in the UK, which involved a lot lotting and attacks on Muslims. This was triggered by a stabbing in Southport and a lie that spread on social media claiming that the perpetrator was a Muslim migrant that came to the UK on a 'small boat' crossing the channel (he was actually born and grew up in Cardiff). Musk may be liable because during the riots he made several posts undermining the government's attempts to quell the unrest and his general failure to tackle disinformation spreading on Twitter, such as the Muslim migrant lie.
I wouldn't call Bluesky's federation fake, we'd need a working definition of 'federation' for that, but I would say it lacks meaningful federation.