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Can Damus and Nostur act as private storage for the user’s notes, replies and reboosts? Nostur shows 270 days back and Damus scrolled to 1y (no more specific details). Are notes deleted in the local storage or is it reasonable to expect that the accumulation of notes over time represents the full archive? @jb55 @Fabian

Bluesky getting some recent new users (from Brazil?)

Atlas - Engagement-Based Social Graph for Bluesky by Jaz (jaz.bsky.social)

Nostr Nests from @Nostur Voice messages (with Whisper transcripts), next? cc @Fabian

The past, present and future of social media (and Nostr revolution) Starting from 0:42 by @rabble https://www.youtube.com/live/uI38gUNaJLY #nostriga

”The program remains fully independent of NATO. France is the only member of the alliance that doesn’t belong to its Nuclear Planning Group, and President Macron holds full authority over potential use.” ”The U.K.’s smaller and less versatile nuclear force is, by contrast, fully integrated into the NATO command. Lacking an air component, it relies on American-supplied Trident missiles for its four submarines and possesses a total of under 260 warheads.” https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/can-europe-still-count-on-americas-nuclear-umbrella-511c8ba0

LinkedIn is the new Twitter Humblebrags mixed with influencer posts and how-to threads with an occasional sprinkle of borrowed TikToks and Reels culminating in deep insights with AI-generated illustrated images.

”Spatial videos filmed at 30fps in 1080p take up around 130MB of storage space for one minute of video”

MacRumors

$3 App Shoots Better Quality Spatial Video Than iPhone

A $3 third-party app can now record spatial video on iPhone 15 Pro models in a higher resolution than Apple

”But the catch is that no one can see the posts. You can publish as many posts as you like. The app even lets you add photos to your posts as well. But you’re sending those posts into the void. Developer Pat Nakajima said on Threads that no post leaves your device and all likes are fake.”

TechCrunch

Meet Palmsy, the fake social network where your posts stay on your device forever | TechCrunch

When you sign up to a new social network, you have zero friends, zero followers, zero likes. But as you start posting content, you might get more a...

”Facebook “secretly signed Whitelist and Data sharing agreements” with Netflix, along with “dozens” of other third-party app developers… …to access, among other things, Facebook users' “messaging app and non-app friends. …allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook’s users' private message inboxes, in exchange for which Netflix would “provide to FB a written report every two weeks that shows daily counts of recommendation sends and recipient clicks by interface, initiation surface, and/or implementation variant (e.g., Facebook vs. non-Facebook recommendation recipients).”

Ars Technica

Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit

Facebook Watch, Netflix were allegedly bigger competitors than they let on.

”Bluesky is basically abstracting out each layer of a social media service and allowing anyone to provide alternatives at each layer… It creates a system that feels as simple and comprehensive as a centralized system, but which is actually decentralized, and enables anyone else to jump in and provide additional services and features at each layer.”

Techdirt

Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far

These days, everyone hates big tech, and that’s often for very good reasons. You shouldn’t trust giant centralized companies that have collecte...