Spending thirty million dollars to somehow force bluesky to interoperate with a copy of itself while people are out here connecting C64s, AA-powered PalmPilots, aquarium pumps and toothbrushes to the Fediverse is definitely an entire idea.
"With your support we can increase the number of BlueSky servers from one to two, as long as they stand very still, don't change anything and also let us do it, all of which are reasonable things to believe will definitely happen."
Me, looking over at the tombstones of usenet, xmpp, mono and every twitter client, thirty years of embrace-extend-extinguish, people heroically struggling to resuscitate email and rss, ad-supported operating systems and all the dead-greenhouse walled gardens: No.
Free Our Feeds people: "We want $30,000,000 to someday liberate the people who've chosen BlueSky from their having chosen BlueSky."
The @PixelFed team, blowing past their Kickstarter goal of 1.66% of $30M: "Our entire team is absolutely overwhelmed by your incredible support."
With your contribution, we hope to hit our $2,000,000 goal and once again welcome the vibrant and wonderful world of finger
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@mhoye@mastodon.social eh, pixelfed are also pretty bad
the guy who runs it has a pretty bad ego and also recently made it harder for people new to the fediverse getting started with pixelfed from choosing other servers
@moin@mastodon.de @mhoye@mastodon.social he moved it from the sign up screen into settings, iirc
@mhoye I agree with your sentiment but using "trail of tears" in this context is disrespectful IMO
@charlag fair, I’ve changed it.
@mhoye Wait, usenet is dead?!?
@mhoye also I believe there are some things BS needs to implement first before this is *actually* possible.
So not just "stand still", but "actively support us".