Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
I don’t use these so maybe I’m missing something, but why would you have to choose? Bluesky is centralized but it seems like its design is committed enough to open technology that it would take them a long time to walk it back, and in the meantime there shouldn’t be barriers to using unified clients that put content from both in the same interface, and possibly override any opinionated content algorithm from the company (not sure if that’s feasible or not).
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Let’s not forget that Reddit’s code is open source. Just because their technology is open doesn’t mean that the data, usage, and network are protected.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Open source code doesn’t mean open API though. Bluesky seems to have made a whole thing out of their technical architecture, and I get the arguments that it’s centralized in practice, but wouldn’t it mean basically scrapping the whole thing to lock down third party clients? Even if that didn’t mean anything I think multiclients could be a good idea anyway, if people were using those and there was a Reddit situation, some portion of users would want to stay with the same clients rather than using whatever proprietary app they try to push.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
That’s exactly my point. Reddit is still shit, and you can’t exactly fork the data, because they’ve locked down the API.
Bluesky could do the exact same thing.