I know it is seemingly criminal to some to mention other social networks on Mastodon, however would like to mention I am on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/joshuastrobl.social
Liam (Gaming on Linux) has been doing a lot of fantastic work creating / maintaining lists for gaming, Linux, and open source (yours truly is also on there). I would suggest using those to follow a bunch of people and filter down after that. Also be sure to ask Liam to add you on the list if you do Linux / OpenSource things!
Open Source one: https://bsky.app/profile/gamingonlinux.com/post/3lay6ngkemk2c
Gaming: https://bsky.app/profile/gamingonlinux.com/post/3laydnibl422h
@me
I see many people leaving TwiXer for Bluesky now.
I guess, the federated, #FreeSoftware alternative doesn't ever win, it's always a "not as sh*t for now" proprietary alternative that the masses go for.
@nicemicro But Bluesky is open source? Their PDS, atproto bits, apps are open source at https://github.com/bluesky-social
@me I knew about their apps, I didn't know that the back end is also open source. So is the only problem that they basically just do not federate with independently hosted servers?
@nicemicro Haven't delved into it enough yet to really say, but last I read you can run your own PDS and log into it using Bluesky, but federation wasn't yet functional. Maybe that's changed since the last I looked though.
@nicemicro Ah nevermind, looks like it is possible. https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation
@me does that mean that now the only thing I can be angry about is that the protocol isn't one that's owned by the public?
@nicemicro@fosstodon.org @me@joshuastrobl.social what they call "federation" in that is only being able to run one piece of the puzzle (the PDS) which is still entirely dependent on the corporate run servers, it's not really decentralized and fake federation. The link was about just running the PDS.