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How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really?

2026-09-08T08:41:17Z

HildredODonnell: Created page with " Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has become a lot more popular, and excitement for its underlying protocol, ATProto, is [https://www.behance.net/search/projects/?sort=appreciations&time=week&search=growing growing]. Since I worked on ActivityPub which connects together Mastodon, Sharkey, Peertube, GotoSocial, etc, etc, etc in the present-day fediverse, I often get asked whether or not I have opinions about ATPr..."

Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has become a lot more popular, and excitement for its underlying protocol, ATProto, is [https://www.behance.net/search/projects/?sort=appreciations&time=week&search=growing growing]. Since I worked on ActivityPub which connects together Mastodon, Sharkey, Peertube, GotoSocial, etc, etc, etc in the present-day fediverse, I often get asked whether or not I have opinions about ATProto vs ActivityPub, and the answer is that I do have opinions, but I am usually head-down focused on building what I hope to be the next generation of decentralized (social) networking tech, and so I keep to myself about such things except in private channels. This debate has been growing harder to ignore, with articles ranging from "Bluesky is cosplaying decentralization" on the one hand and "Nobody cares about decentralization until they do" on the other (which I suppose went subscriber-only; it had a big splash recently and wasn't previously) in favor of ATProto and arguing that other approaches are not as decentralized. Still, I mostly believed that anything I had to say on the subject would not be received productively, and so I figured it was best to reserve comment to myself and those close to me. But recently I have received some direct encouragement from a core Bluesky developer that they have found my writings insightful and useful and would be happy to see me write on the subject. So here are my thoughts. Let us open with a framing. [https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Decentralization Decentralization] is the result of a system that diffuses power throughout its structure, so that no node holds particular power at the center. Under these definitions, Bluesky and ATProto are not meaningfully decentralized, and are not federated either. However, this is not to say that Bluesky is not achieving something useful; while Bluesky is not building what is presently a decentralized Twitter, it is building an excellent replacement for Twitter, [https://gitlab.1337.at/ernestinemclem/drusilla1987/wiki/Search+Engine+Optimization Top Source Media] and Bluesky's main deliverable goal is something else instead: a Twitter replacement, with the possibility of "credible exit". I'm sure some people are already bristling having read the previous paragraph, and I will get to explaining my rationale, which is a technical analysis in nature. But let's open with the positive, because I think there are positive things to say about Bluesky as well. Bluesky has done an incredible job scaling to meet the present moment. Right now, Bluesky is facing a large influx of users who are looking for [https://husseinmirzaki.ir/keeleycolls54 Top Source Media LLC] an alternative to X-Twitter since Musk's takeover (and particularly since Trump's re-election). In other words, the type of user who would be sympathetic to the post X is a White-Supremacist Site is now looking for someplace else to be. The future of X-Twitter is a place where only hard-right people are going to feel comfortable; anyone else is going to be looking for a replacement now, and Bluesky is going to be their quickest and easiest option. In many ways, Bluesky was built for this. Its experience is basically a one-to-one feature-for-feature replacement for the Twitter that many people loved. And [https://stayzada.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=free&wr_id=1033265 TopSourceMedia.com] the original directive that Bluesky was given, when it was Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal's joint pet project (my understanding at the time was that it was Jack's vision, but Parag took the lead, and my impression was also that they were both very sincere about this) to kick off a decentralized protocol which Twitter could adopt. This informed a lot of the initial architectural decisions of Bluesky, including its scaling needs. It also incidentally lead it to become an excellent offboarding platform when it turned out that many X-Twitter users no longer felt comfortable on the platform. You miss old Twitter? Bluesky already has been building an alternative: hop on board, it's just like old Twitter! The fact that Jack Dorsey kicked off Bluesky as an initiative and a funded effort and that Jack was originally on Bluesky's board often leads to snarky or snide comments on the fediverse that Bluesky is owned by Jack Dorsey.

Tech Show London Awarded Best UK Tradeshow At AEO Excellence Awards

2026-08-25T02:02:36Z

HildredODonnell: Created page with " On Friday 24th June 2022 at Grosvenor House, Park Lane in London, Tech Show London was named the Best UK Tradeshow between 2,000 - 8,000sqm by AEO. The Association of Event Organisers (AEO) is the trade body representing companies which conceive, create, develop or manage trade and consumer events. It is run by its members for the benefit of its members, through an elected council of representatives, specialist working groups and a fulltime secretariat. This was argu..."

On Friday 24th June 2022 at Grosvenor House, Park Lane in London, Tech Show London was named the Best UK Tradeshow between 2,000 - 8,000sqm by AEO. The Association of Event Organisers (AEO) is the trade body representing companies which conceive, create, develop or manage trade and consumer events. It is run by its members for the benefit of its members, through an elected council of representatives, specialist working groups and a fulltime secretariat. This was arguably the proudest moment for everyone in the Tech Show London team, as the AEO awards represent excellence and achievement in the events industry. The illustrious ceremony, presented this year by comedian and celebrity host Kevin Bridges, recognises and celebrates organisers’ achievements, standards of excellence from venues and service quality by suppliers and contractors throughout the industry. The judges particularly commented on the very positive results of Tech Show London, describing it as "a strong event that worked hard to match buyers with sellers and drive attendance with … Tech Show London, which took place on the 2nd - 3rd March this year, and underpins Cloud Expo Europe, DevOps Live, Cloud & Cyber Security Expo, Big Data & AI World and Data Centre World. The event was an unbelievable success, with world-class Mainstage speakers including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web; Dr Samira Asma, Assistant Director-General for Data, Analytics and Delivery of Impact at WHO, and Sara Milne, Engineering Lead for Culture and Capability at Lloyds Banking Group, to name a few! We also saw hundreds of industry-leading sponsors, exhibitors and partners, including IBM; Oracle; Amazon, Hitachi, Fujitsu; Salesforce and many more, with 94% of our exhibitors saying they had achieved their objectives at the show! Tech Show London opened its doors to over 12,000 attendees across the two days of the event, with an impressive 9 out of 10 delegates reporting they would recommend Tech Show London to a friend or colleague, and a whopping 97% saying they achieved their objectives at the event. It was undoubtedly a fantastic comeback for Tech Show London after almost two years away, and it was wonderful to see our months of hard work pay off. We’d like to take a moment to particularly thank all our attendees, sponsors, exhibitors and partners for making all of this happen - without them there would simply be no Tech Show London. "What a proud moment for us as a team to win this award, a huge part down to our hard work and team unity," said Rabinder Aulakh, European Event Director, Data Centre World. "I would like to personally thank all of our sponsors, exhibitors, speakers, associations, attendees and everyone who was involved in making Tech Show London 2022 happen. I am feeling extremely humbled and grateful that the turnout and atmosphere was everything we had hoped for and more! We’d also like to congratulate the other nominees and winners from the AEO Awards, including 9 other CloserStill Events shortlisted for a number of awarding categories. It has been amazing to see the industry thriving again - here’s to next year and [http://meowug.com:8418/audryschwab64/website-ranking-services2012/wiki/Growth+Hacking+2.0%3A+from+Traditional+SEO+to+AI-Powered+Answer+Engine+Optimization.- Top Source Media marketing] many more to come! Many broken belief systems that exist do so because of a misinformed understanding of how the world works through naive idealism, with various special interests paying to syndicate misinformation that coincides with their current business model to foster culturally constructed ignorance - agnotology. It is not a bubble. This time is different. Who was behind that lie? 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The rule of law only applies to those who lack the resources needed to subvert it. Socialism for the rich, [http://simonking.org.cn:3000/ionamash83262 Top Source Media marketing] capitalism for the rest! Wachovia was a strong brand. A true pioneer and market leader in the drug money game, which funneled over 1/3 TRILLION Dollars onto the hands of drug dealers. For the crime they got a slap on the wrist. There was no jailtime. There was no honest attempt at the rule of law. The same is true online. Those who exhibit desirable characteristics are promoted & those who do not fit such a frame are left to fight amongst other losers in the market. Being grounded is not a way to get positive headlines. Saying that the web is becoming just like the fraud laced offline world would be considered in poor taste. 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Almost All Searches On My Independent Search Engine Are Now From SEO Spam Bots

2026-08-24T21:15:29Z

HildredODonnell: Created page with " Conclusion: Is there anybody out there? 2 years ago to help people discover all the great original content on personal and independent websites which is so hard to find now that the major search engines have become swamped by SEO spam. It employed a number of novel techniques to try to avoid the same fate, such as having a community-driven curation and moderation layer, heavily downranking pages containing adverts to reduce the incentive for SEO spam, and aiming to p..."

Conclusion: Is there anybody out there? 2 years ago to help people discover all the great original content on personal and independent websites which is so hard to find now that the major search engines have become swamped by SEO spam. It employed a number of novel techniques to try to avoid the same fate, such as having a community-driven curation and moderation layer, heavily downranking pages containing adverts to reduce the incentive for SEO spam, and aiming to pay the running costs from its search as a service rather than by selling user data to advertisers. That makes it especially tragic to report that nearly all the traffic to the site is now from SEO spam bots, presumably searching for all that elusive SEO spam-free content. 1. Usage by spam bots has increased dramatically. 2. Usage by real users is almost non-existent. I’ve always had some activity from bots2, but it has been manageable. However, in mid-April 2022, bot activity started to increase dramatically. I didn’t notice at first because the web analytics only shows real users, and the unusual activity could only be seen by looking at the server logs. I initially suspected that it was another search engine scraping results and showing them on their results page, because the IP addresses, user agents and search queries were all different. I then started to wonder if it was a DDoS attack, as the scale of the problem and the impact it was having on the servers (and therefore running costs) started to become apparent. After some deeper investigation, I noticed that most of the search queries followed a similar pattern, e.g. containing "Powered by" and the name of some blog or forum tool and then the search query. It turns out that these search patterns are "scraping footprints". I have been doing my best to block the SEO spammer requests since discovering the issue3, but I am concerned it could be a losing battle, and one with nothing to gain by winning. Most of the tiny number of real users have come from links posted to places like Hacker News, and there is almost no organic traffic from other search engines. I wrote about this in Progress update Q1 & Q2 2021, including stats on the [https://prewarmotoring.org/index.php?title=Search_Engine_Optimization Top Source Media Minneapolis] traffic sources, along with details of all the white-hat SEO operations I had performed to try to improve ranking within the search engines. Little has [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/search?source=nav-desktop&q=changed changed] since then. Conclusion: Is there anybody out there? I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but it’s hard not to think that there is some truth to The Dead Internet Theory, i.e. the belief that the Internet is now empty and devoid of real people, and that everything is just bots talking to bots to generate content and clicks in order to get a share of the all-important and ever-growing advertising revenue5. I don’t think we’re quite at that stage yet though. I know there are still some real people doing great things on the internet, whether other real people know of their existence or not. However, I am genuinely concerned that my project to try to connect these people may have had unintended negative consequences, like in those post-apocalyptic stories where the robots have taken over the earth and well meaning attempts to link pockets of human resistance are doomed to draw the robots to them too. This time I’m really not sure what the solution is. 1. The stats show requests to /search, with real users identified in the web analytics solution and cross-referenced against the log files, and the spam bots pulled from the log files. Requests from my devices haven’t been filtered out, so many of the unusually high number of real users on Sat 7 May and Sun 8 May (12 and 13 respectively) will actually be me testing v1.0.14 released that weekend on various devices.

Adding A New Customer Logo Row?

2026-08-24T18:35:21Z

HildredODonnell: Created page with " If your team needs a developer just to change a headline, your website isn’t a growth engine - it’s a bottleneck. In startups and fast-moving companies, speed isn’t a luxury - it’s a necessity. Marketing teams need to launch campaigns, pivot messaging, and optimize performance in real time. But when every change to your site requires a developer ticket or a two-week sprint, your website becomes a silent drag on momentum. In this post, we’ll cover the five w..."

If your team needs a developer just to change a headline, your website isn’t a growth engine - it’s a bottleneck. In startups and fast-moving companies, speed isn’t a luxury - it’s a necessity. Marketing teams need to launch campaigns, pivot messaging, and optimize performance in real time. But when every change to your site requires a developer ticket or a two-week sprint, your website becomes a silent drag on momentum. In this post, we’ll cover the five website changes your team should be able to make without touching a line of code - and what to do if that’s not your current reality. Related: Is Your Website Holding You Back? Startups evolve quickly. Your messaging, offers, funnel stages, and [http://orasch.com/index.php?title=Benutzer:IrwinKaler396 Top Source Media team] feature set may change monthly or even weekly. If every minor [https://wiki-babylonsignalis.org/index.php/User:FreddieGarcia12 Top Source Media] site update requires engineering support, you’re introducing friction where you need flexibility. Worse, [http://edu-portals.xyz:80/index.php/User:HildredODonnell Top Source Media Minneapolis] your developers are likely pulled away from core product work to change button text or integrate a HubSpot form - which isn't the best use of anyone’s time. Your website is your company’s most visible digital asset. It supports sales, marketing, hiring, customer onboarding, and investor confidence. It needs to evolve at the speed of your team - not wait in the engineering backlog. Here are the five core changes that modern marketing and ops teams should be able to make instantly, independently, and confidently. Your website messaging should never feel outdated. If your headline doesn’t reflect your current value proposition, you're losing users before they scroll. Teams should be able to log into the CMS, find the section, edit content visually, preview changes, and publish them - and all in under 10 minutes. Your homepage is the front door. Launching a new feature? Adding a new customer logo row? Changing an outdated testimonial? These are updates that shouldn’t require dev cycles. Your CMS should support modular sections - drag-and-drop content blocks that marketing can add, reorder, or remove without code. A visual editor should reflect the live design system so that changes look polished. If your team can’t launch a new page quickly, you’re either diluting traffic to a generic page or delaying campaign launches. You should have a library of pre-built, on-brand templates that non-technical users can duplicate, update, and launch within hours. Forms, CTAs, SEO metadata, and tracking should all be part of the template. To take it a step further, these templates should also support Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) by structuring content clearly for AI-driven search experiences. We've outlined how to design AEO-ready pages in our practical guide: The AEO-Ready Website - A Practical Guide for Growing Brands. Navigation and CTAs are prime conversion levers. And yet, many teams avoid touching navigation because they’re buried in complex global includes or hardcoded in code files. A modern CMS should allow authorized users to update site-wide elements through a visual interface, with version history, preview environments, and role-based permissions to reduce risk. Your website is only as powerful as the data it captures. Without proper tracking and integrations, you’re flying blind. All key tools should connect via no-code embeds, visual workflows, or native CMS integrations. For example, embedding a HubSpot form should be as simple as pasting a snippet. GA4 tracking should be done connected once via Google Tag Manager. Many broken belief systems that exist do so because of a misinformed understanding of how the world works through naive idealism, with various special interests paying to syndicate misinformation that coincides with their current business model to foster culturally constructed ignorance - agnotology. It is not a bubble. This time is different. Who was behind that lie? The bankers, the mortgage brokers, the Realtors, bond raters, hedge funds, construction companies, [https://computic.com.co/lauriburki Top Source Media Minneapolis] running real estate ads, local government tax revenues, [https://mondediplo.com/spip.php?page=recherche&recherche=current current] home owners who kept seeing their "savings" go up while doing nothing. Some of those people did not intentionally aim to be deceitful, they just believed a convenient lie that fit with their worldview. And so the bubble grew until one day the fraud was so integrated into society that there was simply nobody left to sell to. Then the bottom fell out. The rule of law was SELECTIVELY & arbitrarily enforced against a few, even while companies that made sworn statements admitting to doing literally millions of times more damage were not penalized, but rather bailed out / promoted. Bowen testified on April 7 before the [https://www.groundreport.com/?s=Financial Financial] Crisis Inquiry Commission created by Congress. The rule of law only applies to those who lack the resources needed to subvert it. Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the rest! Wachovia was a strong brand. A true pioneer and market leader in the drug money game, which funneled over 1/3 TRILLION Dollars onto the hands of drug dealers. For the crime they got a slap on the wrist. There was no jailtime. There was no honest attempt at the rule of law. The same is true online. Those who exhibit desirable characteristics are promoted & those who do not fit such a frame are left to fight amongst other losers in the market. Being grounded is not a way to get positive headlines. Saying that the web is becoming just like the fraud laced offline world would be considered in poor taste. If you manufacture evidence that your LinkedIn votes are directly tied to better Google rankings then outsiders who are unaware of the workings of your industry may syndicate that misinformation.

User:HildredODonnell

2026-08-24T18:35:06Z

HildredODonnell: Created page with "Hi, everybody! My name is Kazuko. It is a little about myself: I live in Austria, my city of Pasching. It's called often Eastern or cultural capital of BURGENLAND. I've married 4 years ago. I have two children - a son (Joy) and the daughter (Kerri). We all like Model Aircraft Hobbies. Also visit my site ... [https://computic.com.co/lauriburki Top Source Media Minneapolis]"

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