Comment on What about AT protocol?

misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Really? In what way?

  Digital identities being cryptographic and independent of any one instance is huge all on it’s own. The rest of it I understand less clearly, but it looks pretty modular.

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  • gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    See here. Basically, creating a relay for the AT protocol is extremely costly and only possible for big tech companies with lots of investors.

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    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thank you!

      TL;DR, the relay bit works as a completely connected network topology, and has the associated quadratic growth issues, which renders it hard to host.

      Also nasty: Direct messages are just not federated.

      Other things are or were at the time of writing janky, but nothing else is quite that egregious. The author is working on a separate project, and recommends this idea as a solution for portable identity on ActivityPub, and here’s what “object capability” means.

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  • ericjmorey@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The data is not centralized, but everyone is using the same aggravation service (indexer) to access the data.

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    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don’t aggregate me pal

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      • ericjmorey@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        LOL I should have reread that one.

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    • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Most aggregation services are also aggravation services, so this really makes sense either way.

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• ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s also this:
  frontpage.fyi

  Not sure which of the two has been around longer, but looks like frontpage is also pretty slow going.

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  • timconspicuous@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The main difference between Threadsky and Frontpage is that Threadsky is just yet another Bluesky re-skin, it’s just regular Bluesky posts presented in a reddit-like format, whereas Frontpage has its own dedicated lexicon and doesn’t ingest the Bluesky firehose at all. I think Frontpage is really neat, but it has been shown little love unfortunately, it hasn’t meaningfully changed in months.

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