Why would you need sunlight on demand?

Power dispenser

I’m pretty happy with engagement in the Fediverse.

Awesome!

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Lemmy has about 40,000 monthly active users. Lemmy.world accounts for about 15,500 of that. That’s about 40%.

This site currently measures the concentration of user data for active users: in the Fediverse, this data is on servers (also known as instances); in the Atmosphere, it is on the PDSes that host users’ data repos. All PDSes run by the company Bluesky Social PBC are aggregated in this dataset, since they are under the control of a single entity. Similarly, mastodon.social and mastodon.online are combined as they are run by the same company.

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So why does everyone keep referring to Bluesky as decentralized or even comparable to the fediverse

They call it marketing, I call it propaganda.

PDSes only store user data. These are full instances that can be used to browse the network. The idea is to make your account really yours. Bluesky is hosting most of them. But there are some people who do it on their own.

But bluesky controls much more important components in the network, namely the Relay and AppView.

If Bluesky decides to cut off your PDS you are pretty much alone.

Bluesky is pretty much a centralized platform like Twittler.

I suppose PDS instances are included: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

Let’s not forget that’s devices sold per year. If you replace all iphones, that’s about 3 billion I think. This number looks a lot different.

Comparing this to global energy production is not really helpful, in my opinion.

Let’s do the math. Apple sells about about 200 million devices a year. Let’s say they remove the charging port and completely rely on wireless charging, which isn’t completely unrealistic. If we use your 30wh this would result in 6.96GWh or lost energy every single day. With 150wh it would be 34.8GWh.

If that’s not significant for one dumb decision I don’t know what is.

Wireless charging is a waste of energy

That would be too obvious

That’s pathetic

Relationally

root access

Data shouldn’t be organized hirarchically.

That may be true but it makes the Lemmyverse much more robust in the long term.

I don’t care if I have to subscribe to multiple similar communities or see some posts multiple times, as long as not one or just a few people control the whole discourse.