Then users need to spin up their own instance, right? Then all their posts stay backed up if they choose?

Seems like a mediocre problem to get bent out of shape enough to move to a centralized platform.

It seems like a nice way to say “Bluesky moderates everything, so we get to curate your feed!”

Can you not just backup the instance on Mastodon?

I always disregarded it since it came as bloatware on my old samasung phones

The other 2 commenters are wrong. URLs as they appear in your web browser are NOT encrypted when sent over https protocols.

The only data that is encrypted is POST data, and ONLY if it is sent over HTTPS.

So for example, a website login page crafts a URL like https://some.example.com/login?sessionID=12345678 and when you log in to the site extra parameters like Username and Password are sent via POST data, then anyone listening to your web traffic (like the NSA or your neighbor with wireshark) will br able to see the website and the sessionID, but not the login details as they will only show up encrypted.

However, if the site is ran by idiots who pass the data in the URL like this https://some.example.com/login?sessionID=12345678&username=Homer&password=Simpson, then ANYONE listeneing would have your credentials.

Take my angry upvote 😄

Its fancy IRC with voice channel support, etc

Hmm, not sure. Ive been on deluge for a while but ive used QBT before. Might be time to benchmark again

Agrred, QBT and Deluge are great options

Ever since uTorrent started mining on users computers, ive been on QBT

Yea, ive gotten pretty wide adoption from friends and family on Signal, but id love to have a comparable product with even more features/security/privacy

Matrix may get there eventually, but for now its Signal.

I believe Moxie helped them integrate Signal protocol into WA successfully while preserving user integrity and privacy.

However, it wouldnt be out of the realm for them to make modifications to their custom protocol that Moxie helped design, and turn it into a privacy nightmare after the fact.

woohoo! we got moderated content!!! cant wait for all the “organic” ads that pop up in my feed from users spouting the benefits of Tide^TM brand soap!!!

FOSS 4 Life, bb!

neither of you are looking at all the data harvesting that occurs on platforms like Meta and Reddit. Telemetry, keystrokes (not just submitted, but any key typed iincluding backspaced ones), and more, and NONE of that is harvested on this platform.

Could be non native speaker

Let the web2 exodus, BEGIN!!!

Aggregators will come out eventually too