Interesting post about BlueSky’s underlying federated protocol (AT Protocol)

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    9 months ago

    AT seems like pretend decentralization. theyve just hidden the important centralized layers in services controlled by ‘the big guys’ because ‘traffic volume’…

    so its still going to be a bunch of endpoints(instances) required to talk to these giant relays if you want any users to see any content whatsoever.

    no thanks. the more i read, the more this is an over-engineered nightmare not reallly offering any benefit for those nightmares.

    barrier to instance entry is still deep, and reliant on a giant ex-twitter corporation to exist.

  • Adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev
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    9 months ago

    “For example, if every time I post a new update on BlueSky, if I had to send my post to every single one of my followers’ repositories, that would be extremely inefficent”

    Somewhat ironic to have this posted on and activitypub driven fediverse.

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    9 months ago

    I’m not clear who the intended audience is here. A self-moderated micro-blogging platform is what most people needed all along, which is why the Fediverse exists. The real question remains how a corporate Fedi-protocol is going to interact with advertisers and marketers.