What’s the point of signing up to a new social network that will eventually be acquired by the wrong person/company? In that sense, I’ll stick with #mastodon
Don’t worry, the Fediverse will still be here when #Bluesky inevitably implodes or becomes otherwise unusable like every other capital driven social media thing. We’ll keep the lights on.
ActivityPub was not invented in 2018, in fact it has a history of multiple protocol iterations since 2008 including OpenMicroBlogging and OStatus.
2010 another company named diaspora raised $200k to create another federated protocol. In 2018 #diaspora peaked at 1 Mio. users with 200 federated servers. Then the core dev decided to ignore #ActivityPub. That was the end.
Lets see how #Bluesky and #Nostr inventing the wheel again.
We join Mastodon or the Fediverse to check it out, but stay for the cat pics. So if you're thinking of leaving or even of requesting a Blue Sky invite, the boss would like a word with you ...
Painfully obvious that #BlueSky is going to be favoured over #mastodon (the default concept of ActivityPub in the minds of normal people) by most who leave twitter; twits LOVE a direct twitter rip. It's already building steam with people I followed on twitter who haven't bothered to make a home of Mastodon.
I'm considering writing a formal document (FEP?) that specifies how an ActivityPub service (including both server and client behavior) may implement domain-only names like #Bluesky has. Because it's the biggest beneficial thing Bluesky has that we don't (the one other thing is detached "preferred" handles, which is related). I've reasoned somewhere else before that it would be super helpful for #BridgyFed, #Tumblr, and #Wordpress.
@anildash does a good job of explaining why we should not be antagonistic toward projects like Bluesky, if they're at least decentralized, a step toward a true open web.
But I understand why many see this is as opening the door to big corporate dollars that MIGHT suck interest — and community support $$ — from Fedi instances. Of course, it will do some of that, but if the whole fedi project can be so easily eclipsed, we'll have to question why, and seek remedy. Isolationism rarely works.
And i say this as someone who hopes #BlueSky dies a swift death, mainly because Fedi needs a bigger head start. But I really don't think that's going to happen any time soon. So we well have to co-exist and each will have to prove our value propositions, or risk irrelevance, extinction—or both,
Dear everybody on #Twitter looking at #Bluesky please please come over to the federated social web first, already proven to work for millions of people without millions of $$ in capital. I'll personally help you get set up please reach out.
Isn't #BlueSky founded by Jack Dorsey? Like the same Jack Dorsey who was supportive of Musk taking over Twitter saying "I trust him" while slowly backing away as the dumpster fire grew? I don't trust it.
My hot take on #Bluesky is that it is never going to be federated in practice.
Federation inherently brings considerable complexity - and already well-followed #Twitter users moving over are just seeking a wholesale anti-#Musk alternative.
By and large, they do not care about the benefits of federation (which is understandable)... and so there will be no demand for implementations of the #ATProtocol outside of the default, proprietary instance.