The whole idea of BlueSky supporting nomadic identities but the rest of the ActivityPub (plus other stuff) Fediverse being unable to do so is such an oversold idea.
A new service using ActivityPub behind the scenes (and not the AT Protocol) can absolutely support nomadic identities, even if the service doesn't treat a whole website as the actor.
It will still use did:plc, same as AT Protocol (BlueSky), but once done so, an application that understands how to work with did:plc can dereference an actor based on the DID.
That said, an existing service will simply not be compatible with this idea, without changing how it operates.
@mikedev that's definitely the BlueSky folks talking about why the AT Protocol is advantageous.
Yes, they were mostly talking about Mastodon, but their blog post did seem to hide the fact that anything ActivityPub enriched with other protocols will most certainly empower nomadic identity.
Nomadic identity is the idea that your account is not tied to a single server, but instead can move from server to server, but your profile will still be identified by the same identifier, regardless of what server that you are on.
The problem with building a closed social network is that it sets up an all or nothing premise for users. They might like some of the signature features but they'll leave if there's not enough people to network with. That's a shame and a huge barrier to innovation and new social products.
The #fediverse changes that forever. People can now use the features they like from a mix of apps across a common network of people. This means we can take a whole new approach to how "social" and "media" should work including discovery, user experience and monetization that will be far healthier than anything we've had in the past.
Speaking of supply-chain issues, China was struggling to meet demands during the pandemic.
While the rest of the world opened up and China was falling behind, Canada should have looked into bringing in more secondary markets into its borders. But nope, we are still dependent on China.
And as Tim Cook said, China is no longer the leader in cheap labour. Labour costs are similar to that of North American markets.
The real problem is that the raw knowledge in manufacturing is just not here in Canada.
We have lots of land for which we could develop manufacturing capacities, but we didn't.
First study tests for markers of stress, through heart rate and cortisol levels, and the findings revealed that browsing for 20 minutes on a smart phone lead to a DECREASE in stress markers.
Oppenheimer S, Bond L, Smith C (2024) Social media does not elicit a physiological stress response as measured by heart rate and salivary cortisol over 20-minute sessions of cell phone use. PLOS ONE 19(4): e0298553. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298553
And also, children who scroll through social media can shape mental models of socially acceptable behaviour in mere hours, rather than years otherwise.
I'm not doubting that the queue is coupled to the cache, but I have a suspicion that there is a specific example you are referring to that I probably am not aware of.
What queue (or part of the queue) is coupled to the cache?
Is ActivityPub considered to be synchronous "request/response" specification/protocol, or is ActivityPub considered to be an asynchronous fire-and-forget specification/protocol?
I got a lot of people suggesting that I send a 4xx response if something coming into the inbox fails to adhere to constraints established by the receiving server.
But that does not account for all the ActivityPub-related edge cases.
For this reason alone, it makes sense for me to just take in the activities, throw it into a stream processor, and respond with a 202, implying "got it".
Some days, I think that maybe I should just stop writing, burn my site down, and disappear.
I love doing what I do, and I know there are areas in which I need to improve. But, the last few big articles have been rough for me. People have gotten really angry with me for a variety of reasons, some of which I fundamentally disagree with. But, it forces me to look inwards.
Maybe it's my fragile white male ego, my mediocrity, my deep cynicism, or my stupidity. Maybe I'm just a worthless piece of shit.
I think what terrifies me is that I want to make a living doing this down the road, but I'm thin-skinned and fragile. I live for the acceptance of other people, because my self-image is distorted beyond recognition.