@sun @BeedleDave did peesonator go down now that alex is on nostr

@wowaname @BeedleDave it hasn't been working right for a long time, I haven't been able to follow people for months.

@sun @BeedleDave never go full vegan

@wowaname @BeedleDave @sun Can you really blame him for leaving the Fedi. Here, he gets cancelled by Pleroma and Akkoma devs, and dogpiled by Poast users. Meanwhile, the Nostr community embraces him with open arms and he got to go to Nostr conventions because of it.

@xianc78 @wowaname @BeedleDave I don't blame him at all for following the money and influence but he wasn't blameless in those conflicts.

@sun @wowaname @BeedleDave I honestly don't know the full extent of those conflicts as I was never a dev for any Fedi software nor an instance owner/admin.

But as someone who has experienced both networks, Nostr seems to align more with the vision he had for the fedi.

@xianc78 @wowaname @BeedleDave I believe he left because he got a nostr grant and it was for more money than he was getting from the Fedi. This isn't a slam on him, we all have to make a living. I think another factor is that he is in much more control of his fate and is making his own way and his own name there.

@sun @wowaname @BeedleDave
>he got a nostr grant
Was it from Jack Dorsey? He immediately jumped to Nostr after the failure of BlueSky.

@xianc78 @sun @BeedleDave who considers bsky a failure?

@wowaname @xianc78 @BeedleDave imo dorsey left the bluesky board because it diverged so far from what he was originally trying to do with it.

@sun @wowaname @BeedleDave BlueSky still relies on centralized servers much like how vanilla bitcoin still relies on the centralized "lightening network". It's no more decentralized than a torrent tracker.

@xianc78 @wowaname @BeedleDave bluesky is a sham but it's growing in popularity and I think it might already be bigger than Fedi in active users.

@sun @wowaname @BeedleDave There were a bunch of Twitter users who threaten to jump ship but I bet most of them will abandon their accounts within a month. Most of them just hate Elon Musk, but for the wrong reasons.

But I wouldn't really care if BlueSky somehow manages to make a dent in Twitter's userbase given what Elon Musk plans to do with it (making it an "everything app" which to me sounds like Digital ID). Granted, BlueSky can still do the same, but I don't expect that to happen any time in the near future.