UPDATED: I for one welcome Bluesky, the ATmosphere, BTS ARMY, millions of Brazilians, Black Twitter, and sex worker Twitter to the fediverses!
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UPDATED: I for one welcome Bluesky, the ATmosphere, BTS ARMY, millions of Brazilians, Black Twitter, and sex worker Twitter to the fediverses!
https://privacy.thenexus.today/bluesky-atmosphere-fediverse/
Yes, Bluesky's problematic in a lot of ways -- and I added a new section on that. But people leaving Xitter are looking for a Twitter alternative, and Mastodon (and other fediverse platforms) isn't a great option for that for most people. So while it's quite possible that a year or two from now everybody will be saying "oh shit time to move again", right now Bluesky is incredibly valuable.
Of course there's a lot more to social networking than Twitter alternatives, and there's plenty of good stuff happening here too. Still there are some problems we really need to address. So right now things are coplementary, and let's hope Mastodon and the rest of the ActivityPub fediverse takes advantage of this situation to finally make progress on its long term -- starting with anti-Blackness
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Mark Darbyshirereplied to The Nexus of Privacy last edited by
A great overview!
My hot take: Protocols should empower users and communities to connect effortlessly (but consensually).
By inventing yet another protocol, Bluesky further siloed the social web, instead of empowering users to connect. So now the Fediverse is in even more of a tangle.
People care about people, not protocols or platforms, but we sure are making it hard for them.
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The Nexus of Privacyreplied to Mark Darbyshire last edited by
I think the protocol stuff is mostly irrelevant. To the extent it matters, AT's better suited for large all-public networks; ActivityPub has major flaws, the standards group hasn't made any progress for the last N years, and most of fedi uses Mastodon's proprietry extensions to ActivityPub so the supposed advantages of standards-coplienace are wishful thinking. So I can certainly see why they decided to do their own thing.
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Mark Darbyshirereplied to The Nexus of Privacy last edited by
Nevertheless, I hope we can find a way to make connection a lot smoother for those who want to connect without having to be on every platform. I'm finding Bridgy Fed quite nice now I've got it up and running, but it comes with a steep learning curve and depends on people opting in.
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The Nexus of Privacyreplied to Mark Darbyshire last edited by
Yeah, agreed. I like Ryan's thinking on moving it forward, but we shall see. Honestly part of the problem is that people here think it primarily benefits Bluesky, and Bluesky as a company almost certainly doesn't care very much about it (although individuals are very supportive), so it's not clear who will pay for it.
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Mark Darbyshirereplied to The Nexus of Privacy last edited by
Yes, and the open social web is a public good that most governments, companies, charities, and philanthropists don't stop to think about.
