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Comment on Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture

After reading the article i think you might be wrong with this one.

From what i got now is that there are 3 layers

First is storage which can be completly or is decentralised

Then backend/server/application layer which can be bsky or whatever ticktok alternative gets made which is not decentralised

and then user layer/view which depends on the application

What i want to say is that the relay can be exchanged through something else

So pro atProto is:

data seems to be actually decentralised
applications sharing the data
everyone gets the data

And pro ActivityPub is:

more alternatives of the same application/server
way better control over data (federation & defederation)
servers interact with each other nativly (atPr seems to let the servers only interact with data)
more efficient (servers can update clients, in case of at least bsky clients have to ask servers)

pro ActivityPub? (unsure about the technical details)

moderation? As in shared lists
able to host by individuals? As in i dont need an compute intensive relay

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flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
But what about the DIDs, the things used to actually identify accounts within the ATproto ecosystem:

But Bluesky has developed its own DID method, did:plc. Today, did:plc stands for “Public Ledger of Credentials”, however it originally stood for “Placeholder DIDs”, with the hope of replacing them with something else later. The way that did:plc works is that Bluesky hosts a web service from which one can register, retrieve, and rotate keys (and other associated DID document information). However, this ledger is centrally controlled by Bluesky.

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- aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This is false, they support did:web which ties your identity to ownership of a DNS name (which is its own can of worms, but not PLC).
  
  The other part is that you still have to register it to get indexed by the relay, so people can read your posts without querying your server directly (which is possible but discouraged).
  
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  - flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I spent a couple hours trying to create an account on pds.flamingos-cant.xyz that uses a did:web following the instructions here and the account at the end ended up with a did:plc, so IDK how you create a PDS with a did:web but it’s clearly not something they put a lot of effort into supporting.
    
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- Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  i forgot the DIDs
  Oh no
  
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  - aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    They support did:web too if you don’t like did:plc
    
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