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European Medicines Agency ditches Elon Musk’s X in favor of Bluesky

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is the regulator for vaccines and medicine in the European Union (EU), has stopped using the social media platform X. The website is owned by Elon Musk, who is an important ally of the newly elected United States president Donald Trump. The EMA, whose headq...

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European Medicines Agency ditches Elon Musk’s X in favor of Bluesky

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Lmao they went to Bluesky, a centralized (don’t get pedantic with me) social media platform controlled by Americans. Genius
- Still an improvement
  
  From boiling water into water that happens to be in a switched-on kettle. Huge improvement.
  When the enshittification comes (when, not if, they'll have to drag their feet to move somewhere else again. All their followers will have to follow them again. Had they moved to a proper open solution, they could've stayed there indefinitely.
  It's not just about Bluesky" not being the proper and pure solution", it's about this being a temporary measure at best, and people don't seem to realize that.
  
  From boiling water into water that happens to be in a switched-on kettle. Huge improvement.
  It IS a huge improvement.
  
  Gosh I know, moving from a social media platform where its owner sig heils to a platform where its owner does not is just as bad. You're either trolling or an idiot.
- People go to the platform that's easy, attractive and works, instead of the very beautiful, finely crafted, exquisite solution that requires days of reading followed by fiddling every other day to barely get the same immediate result, assorted with hidden surprises like hidden moderation and silent failure situation that leads to fragmentation of the whole network. What a surprise.
  Also, "don't get pedantic with me" does not sit well with the current goals of bluesky. Sure, right now, they focused on making something that works and is usable by everyone. Whoop fucking doo, that's exactly what mastodon/lemmy/most activitypub services skipped. And that's why the general public look at them with contempt. I can't see the future (maybe you can, lucky you), but for now, bluesky works, and the plan they're still following up to now is aimed toward a decentralized solution.
- Wikipedia says "direct messages are offered though a central service". If that's was/still is correct then you're correct, it's centralized.
  Nuance is the friend of truth - pedantic.
  
  The whole algorithm (AppView) is centralised. While it's technically possible to host with enough capital, a second AppView server would also double bandwidth required for every message sent on the network. This gets worse the more AppView instances you add, as every message has to be sent to every AppView server (exponential growth)
  
  Thats the same issue with activity pub, is it not?
  
  No, ActivityPub only send messages to the recipients. Uninvolved servers don't get the message at all until one of their users explicitly searches for it.
  In the worst case where every user has their own server, one message per recipient is sent. Adding another recipient on their own server means one more message being sent and so forth.
- If I had a company with public presence, I would too. Companies and organization's go to the people are.
  
  This is local thing though.

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