Billionaire Mark Cuban said this week that he felt Bluesky had become "more rude and hateful". The predominantly liberal user base makes it difficult to ask questions or discuss issues with other users, he said.

However, I cannot confirm this observation based on my own experience.

Bluesky is backfiring. Mark Cuban says the 'lack of diversity of thought' is actually pushing users back to X

The billionaire argues Bluesky’s liberal-heavy user base creates an echo chamber.

Fortune (fortune.com)

Episode 4 of the FiresideFedi podcast show featured Laurin, the developer of ActivityPods. The project is helping to bring Sir Tim Berners-Lee's #Solid #PODS to the #Fediverse.

#Podcast

FiresideFedi Show about ActivityPods

@julian@community.nodebb.org

Perhaps as a compromise, you shouldn't follow a user, but instead follow hashtags that match the topic of the category.

In his text, Mark Carrigan asks a few interesting questions about the further development of Bluesky and whether the move of the academic community to Bluesky was a good decision.

The question is how Bluesky will react if investors push for more involvement. What happens when a certain level of user growth becomes an absolute requirement for new funding? The existing problems of other social networks are not so much due to individuals with bad intentions, but rather to the inherent logic of building a mass commercial platform.

Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did

@nutomic@lemmy.ml

I do not believe that Open Web Auth complies with the OAuth 2 specification. However, there is an FEP for OWA

fep/fep/61cf/fep-61cf.md at main

fep - Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

Codeberg.org (codeberg.org)

@nutomic@lemmy.ml

Wiki pages at Hubzilla are unfortunately not federated, but remain on the respective hub.

@kat@orbi.camp Fedify is a framework for developing new services for the Fediverse. It provides basic functions so that not everyone has to reinvent the wheel.

GitHub - fedify-dev/fedify: ActivityPub server framework in TypeScript

ActivityPub server framework in TypeScript. Contribute to fedify-dev/fedify development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub (github.com)