This kind of UX is the main reason I personally dont use Mastodon. It's just not intuitive
First of all, Bluesky the company would have to implement auth on the communication between relay and AppView, cut off everyone from using their relay, and specifically stop ingesting content from non-Bluesky PDSs.…
I don't have the energy to put all of the advantages and argue for them here, but take a look at https://atproto.com and maybe look around at other blog posts and articles that contrast atproto and ActivityPub. Might…
the issue is that this is a little myopic when thinking about identity. Your instance server in ActivityPub holds your identity, so when you change servers by mirroring or whatever method, you're giving up your old…
they could change the protocol going forward if they wanted but all of the data currently posted on the protocol from the past would still be migratable to another PDS who supports the "old" fork of ATproto. I don't…
the key thing though is that the data that people post with right now on Bluesky is on ATproto, which can be migrated to another PDS without permission from your current PDS (bsky.social). so if Bluesky tried to…
Bluesky has both: a following feed in chronological order and an algorithmic feed that shows you stuff new to you. they're also releasing custom algorithms soon so that you can plug in whatever algorithm you want…
AP doesn't have this? Bluesky has this and it's in private beta still :(
This kind of UX is the main reason I personally dont use Mastodon. It's just not intuitive
First of all, Bluesky the company would have to implement auth on the communication between relay and AppView, cut off everyone from using their relay, and specifically stop ingesting content from non-Bluesky PDSs.…
I don't have the energy to put all of the advantages and argue for them here, but take a look at https://atproto.com and maybe look around at other blog posts and articles that contrast atproto and ActivityPub. Might…
the issue is that this is a little myopic when thinking about identity. Your instance server in ActivityPub holds your identity, so when you change servers by mirroring or whatever method, you're giving up your old…
they could change the protocol going forward if they wanted but all of the data currently posted on the protocol from the past would still be migratable to another PDS who supports the "old" fork of ATproto. I don't…
the key thing though is that the data that people post with right now on Bluesky is on ATproto, which can be migrated to another PDS without permission from your current PDS (bsky.social). so if Bluesky tried to…
Bluesky has both: a following feed in chronological order and an algorithmic feed that shows you stuff new to you. they're also releasing custom algorithms soon so that you can plug in whatever algorithm you want…
AP doesn't have this? Bluesky has this and it's in private beta still :(