Or maybe they do it because it would be very confusing for 99% of users to read “sign in with your atproto account” when no one knows what that is. Its a good thing theyre keeping things simple for now instead of getting the mastodon “its too complicated” issue and having non tech users not use it.
Mastodon and the activitypub culture is very much either “its too complicated” or “how do you not understand its so simple maybe you’re just dumb and shouldnt be here” energy and its why 99% of topics here are just tech and politics. Almost no artists use it and the few that use it are on mastodon.art which defederates from so many instances.
BeAware@social.beaware.live 4 months ago
@xnx well, it doesn't really matter their reasoning when the end result is the same.
It won't become truly decentralized with these things in the way.
xnx@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
It does matter their reasoning and they can change the word when atproto is more understood. No fedi software uses “sign in with your activitypub account” either because confusing users is a bad thing.
I personally like that theyre doing things to appeal to non tech users because i dont want to use a service no one uses. Its why i dont use any activitypub service for my art because theres no artists using activitypub but bluesky has a huge art community even though they still dont have video
BeAware@social.beaware.live 4 months ago
@xnx to each their own.
The anarchist in me doesn't feel right having a corporate overlord who can :yeet: me from existence whenever they choose.🤷♂️
That's not important to everyone and that's fine. We are all different.
@fediverse
xnx@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
You can be yeeted here too? And as time goes on people can run their own relays making it impossible for the bluesky team to ban you