This week's news for #Bluesky and the ATmosphere
- A lack of action from mods about well-known anti-trans writer joining Bluesky leads to community uproar
- More information about Bluesky's upcoming subscription service
- Multiple new #atproto apps have launched
https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-atmosphere-2412-b/
New: What is Farcaster, and why did a16z value it at 1 billion dollar?
#Farcaster is a decentralised social network that has seen significant growth recently, with currently around 80k daily active users. The network has strong ties with crypto and Ethereum. They got an investment of $150M recently by (among others) a16z.
I take a closer look at how Farcaster works, and why some crypto VCs think its worth a billion dollars.
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/what-is-farcaster-and-why-did-it-raise-150m-usd/
Correction: the original version stated that the Mostr.pub bridge was used for a spam wave on Bluesky. This is incorrect, a different bridge between Nostr and the fediverse, momostr.pink, was used. Mostr.pub creator Alex Gleason explains that the Mostr.pub bridge has anti-spam filtering that would have prevented such as spam attack.
nostr:npub1vj4na680vwc734eq5y7v42k550dayssswky9zjqlp3azkpdpmrnqltxdjd interesting, thanks for the tag!
The lemmy.world (lwadmin@lemmy.world) admins release a statement about the recent reoccurring outages at lemmy.world.
They state that for multiple hours per day, they are under a DDOS attack. The attackers find database queries that are 'expensive' to run, to try and overload the database.
The lemmy.world admins also respond to remarks that lemmy.world is too big, and should close down registration.
lemmy.world/post/2923697