I recently finished the episode of The Verge’s podcast #Decoder with the interview to Bluesky’s CEO and it seems a quite interesting project. At the beginning I wasn’t looking really into it because of their choice of using a new protocol instead of the existing ActivityPub, but after listening to her and the reasons behind this choice maybe I’ll give them a chance.

What do you think? Do you use it alongside with the fediverse?

  • marathon@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I was on there, but it seems to me to basically full of the neoliberal crowd that left X when Musk took over. Too much snark IMO.

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I don’t and I don’t want to, I hate it when everyone makes their own standard which means there is no real standard to speak of. There’s a xkcd exactly for that.

    I’m using ActivityPub and that’s what I’ll be using as long as I feel it makes sense.

    They could have made ActivityPub better, instead they made an incompatible protocol.

    • shaked_coffee@feddit.itOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      That’s almost exactly what I was thinking before listening to the podcast.

      But there she explained how ActivityPub was missing some of the feature they wanted because of its instance-centric approach and how trying to change that would have been hard (given how sceptical towards changes and everything corporate-related the fediverse community can be), and so they opted for a new protocol since the goals of the two project were with different aims.

      Still not 100% convinced tbh, but I can’t deny she has a point…

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
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        8 months ago

        instance-centric approach

        What did she mean by this? Could you be more specific about what she said? I don’t really want to listen to the podcast.

        • shaked_coffee@feddit.itOPEnglish
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          8 months ago

          She was saying that on Mastodon (that was the main activitypub platform she was comparing to) the choice of the instance can heavily influence your experience. If I don’t remember wrong her main points were:

          • There’s a local timeline and a federated timeline, and even in the federated timeline you see your instance posts and the posts of the instances yours have federated with, not all posts
          • A global search is not always the easiest thing to do, and previous attempts of project that would have facilitated it didn’t received much appreciation from the community
          • If your instance admin do choices you don’t agree with (for example blocking another instance) the only way to interact with that other instance is to move yourself
          • Moving from an instance to another means loosing your posts and replies, that would stay on the original instance

          She was not saying that this approach is wrong, in fact many people on Mastodon like this more community-focused and less-global approach, just that it isn’t what they wanted for Bluesky

  • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I don’t know much about their protocol, but I find it likely to be better than ActivityPub since AP is kind of a mess. However I’m not going back to corporate social media ever again. The fewer corporate things in my life the better.

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      The Activitypub protocol is fine. It could use some minor improvements but there’s definitely no reason for an entirely new protocol.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I don’t know much about their protocol

      As far as I understand, Bluesky is basically a central authority in their protocol. I wouldn’t really call that better than ActivityPub.

    • shaked_coffee@feddit.itOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Even if the corporate is a public benefit corporation with open source foss code both for server and client?

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
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        8 months ago

        public benefit corporation

        They’re still for profit and corporate leadership and values can change. I wouldn’t trust it.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 months ago

    As a normie replacement for Twitter, from what I’ve seen so far, it doesn’t seem that bad, especially in comparison to Threads. I’m somewhat reserving judgement until it’s more clear what the platform’s long-term trajectory is. It definitely seems to have way less alt-right shit on it than Twitter these days, which is a big mark in its favor tbh.

    But as a primary platform, it’s not for me. I’ve come to love lemmy and the extremely strong community-driven OSS aspect. I’ll be sticking around here for sure. I only interact peripherally with Bluesky.

  • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    It’s still funded by ads and governed by algorithm recommendations, right? Even if they had perfect moderation, which is difficult to decide on anyway, it’s still got the same incentives as Twitter, which means it will inevitably become Twitter. They want you to spend more time on it to make more money, so they show you things most likely to get a reaction out of you, which means they’re showing you things designed to get you angry and respond. Mastodon is much nicer for giving everyone equal billing and allowing you to modify that by following people you want to hear from most.

  • J L Gatewood@zotum.net
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    8 months ago

    I use it alongside.
    Eventually with bridges that are surely coming or with their PDS self-hosting architecture, I’ll just post using my own infrastructure as I do with ActivityPub and Hubzilla/Friendica/Wordpress now.

    We can have more than one place, as long as its still decentralized-- And the only central place within a unified Fediverse should be your own little space within, whether it’s an asteroid or a whole galaxy.