This wikipedia page is true gold lol:

Lotito holds the record for the ‘strangest diet’ in the Guinness Book of Records. He was awarded a brass plaque by the publishers to commemorate his abilities. He ate his award.[3]

the .bsky.social is the main instance. The bridge acts as another instance.

For example one of my friends has a ATProtocol account hosted on the fellas.social instance, so his username is @johndoe.fellas.social

it basically works like lemmy and mastodon in that regard

The main difference with lemmy/fediverse is that instances don’t actually host the software, they just host the database. So it’s plug and play into any open source ATProtocol software. This dramatically decreases server loads and makes hosting an instance or your data cheaper but also means that software is more intensive to host.

its opt in and the bridge is only a single instance so you can defederate from the instance

I guess my private server and open source appview conntected to the ATprotocol are a conspiracy theory then?

Yes the vast majority of people are on the main instance, but the protocol and software are decentralised. And bluesky the PBC is actually providing grants for people to set up alternative servers to speed up the decentralisation process.

Bluesky is far from perfect but I’ve been quite disappointed by the “Fedi Good bluesky bad” oversimplifying and villification that has been going on here recently.

There are tens of thousands of accounts opted into the bridge.

It’s a Public Benefit Corp structure, so legally investors have very little power.

bluesky has a couple disability friendly features both mastodon and X don’t have.

ditto

Hiiiii

duckduckgo and searx using duckduckgo work fine

Bluesky is mostly moderated by collarborative community blocklists, and so far atleast, the experience has been great.

And do remember that bluesky is simply a privately owned server for a FOSS protocol and frontend.

I mean bsky gained an influx of 1.5 million in past few days.

Really? I’ve had to block maybe one person, but the moderation lists are really well curated and crowdsourced so it mostly hasn’t been a problem.

Thanks that’s helpful. I’ll wait it out I guess as I’m not upto tinkering with the API right now.

Yeah, I know that’s not possible as of now. Just wondering if there is a simpler way to get a copy of my comments and posts than using a web scraper.

Wondering about Lemmy specifically. I know there’s an export option for settings though.

I mentioned in many of the other replies that they are bedridden, meaning they can’t even leave their room.

Not possible in this case Check the other comments :)

you too. Really appreciate you looking into it. Most people just don’t care, so it really makes me feel seen, thank you.

Thanks for sharing. I have ME/CFS too.

It’s not even that rare over 2 million people in the US have it, just quite a marginalised illness, mostly because it majoritarily affects women and was therefore blamed on “hysteria” till the 80s. A lot of the medical system still has prejudicicial views towards it.

A decent chunk of the more severe Long COVID cases fit ME diagnosis criteria, which makes sense, because most ME cases have historically been caused by viral infections.