Complete agree with this article, and I'd add that this trend is poisoning online forums. So if you're one of those people, you're making your work environment and the Internet a worse place.
But I also write about slow technologies, plain text, digital Minimalism, and digital self reliance. Oh and Pandoc and Asciidoctor. Feel free to link to whatever interests you. Thanks!
I don't know if this is the one you mean but there's a flea market platform for the Fediverse which I posted about at https://social.growyourown.services/@homegrown/116908540294565658
It's not an artist's co-op though so almost certainly not what you meant?
I still need to work through my binder and add the cards into the system but I have first few pages populated and a couple of first notes added.
Feel free to click around at https://pokedex.hamatti.org/
🚧 One important thing: it's not responsive by any means yet. It works nicely only on larger screens. That's a future todo item once I get all the data loaded in!
The tournament at Harrenhal seems to be the bloody Omphalos of the A Song of Ice and Fire world: just about everything that formed their current world seems to have got started there. I wonder what actually happened there?
Maybe this will tell me.
Not really reading the whole thing, just skimming through, but here's an interesting tidbit.
"I’m not ready to announce the specifics, but we will start monetizing this year."
Curious to see what they will come up with!
"The way I look at it is there’s already money being made on this network. We’re sending lots of traffic to people who then convert that traffic into subscriptions.. I think our job is to just help more of that happen."
Someone from their team already mentioned some form of revenue sharing. Hmm.
Worth perhaps noting that the number of "daily likers" on Bluesky fell under one million for the first time since March 2025, as all metrics continue to decline.
In an interview with The Verge, Bluesky's CEO sees a common goal between the fediverse and the Atmosphere/Bluesky, can see them co-existing side by side "long-term".
"We have not talked to Threads. We’re definitely talking to Mastodon and ActivityPub. They definitely feel we’re very aligned. Our missions are very aligned."
