So I know I am probably going to get biased responses, but please try and be a bit objective. What makes you prefer posting on the #Fediverse over #ATProto / #Bluesky ? I really wanna pick people’s brains on this. I will go first:
I like the concept of portable identity that Bsky talks about however it still feels very much the same exact thing as running your own instance on #ActivityPub but worse as you mainly going to be on PDS that connects to the central BGS that Bluesky operates so you can interact with others, but now they have the power to just block you from everyone else on the BGS… with #ActivityPub you are not having to speak to a centralized BGS you are sending to anything that requests to receive your feed similar to RSS… and you can block still if you don’t want to see stuff from another instance as your instance or personal level without effecting other instances or people depending on the level you block it at.
I've been tracking how the number of posts per day on #Bluesky is going - looks like it's now at about ~400k posts per day from 70-75k users, which is around 4-5x what it was when I started recording data 2 months ago 📈 #ATProto#ATProtocol
(*) I think it's mostly furries though because my people aren't posting much 🙃
This video from @jgarr about the differences between #ActivityPub and #ATProto has me wondering if ActivityPub could actually support separating identity from content, since things like post ids are fully qualified URLs.
Could I host my identity on one domain and my content on another? I haven’t found anything in the protocol spec that forbids that, but I may have overlooked it.
Actively pushing against others to adopt your protocol is how you ensure that your protocol won't "win." I'm a firm believer that a decentralized protocol will be the future of social networks/feeds as we know them. I don't know if it is going to be #ActivityPub or #ATProto or something else. But I believe a decentralized protocol will be the future. But the winner will be the one that centralized-acting services adopt. That's a good thing for everyone. It means users have data portability. 🧵
I'm interested in exploring development of AT Protocol client apps, but have no access to BlueSky yet (running my own isolated server not really helpful here either).
If anyone does have a spare invite that be greatly appreciated! #bluesky
I bring impressions and takes from 12 hours occasionally glancing at #bluesky social and reading about the tech
The #federation concept and approach to personal data / profile portability and security is neat. I’ll be interested to see how that progresses in practice over the next months and year, and how much cross pollination there ends up being between #fedi / #activitypub and #bsky / #atproto
And then, unfortunately, at the moment there’s an.. oddly designed feature that enables some people to be total sleezeballs and rack up thousands / 10s of thousands of follows (yes! I saw an account with >40k follows!), in what I can only guess is a vain attempt at creating an influence-y social fiefdom early in the vacuum with few heavy hitters. I find it really distasteful and don’t plan on touching bsky until there’s a mitigation.
Call me a romantic, but I like to feel like I’m in a small community and sorta get to “know” the people following me? And have others discover me organically?
I feel like I've largely rebuilt the community I had on Twitter over here on #Mastodon and am just not interested in #BlueSky right now. I'm honestly disappointed that they deliberately chose not to have #ActivityPub compatibility. Also, I don't really trust Jack, either. He very intentionally pushed for Elon taking over Twitter. Going to BlueSky seems sort of like falling for your ex again because they changed their name from Brianna to Bri and started wearing a leather jacket.
@Whizanth@gmate8 You're correct that #ATProto itself doesn't use crypto but that doesn't mean it isn't a planned thing for #BlueSky itself. Considering Jack is behind it and largely funded it with bitcoin, it's not hard to connect those dots.