MxRemy@piefed.social 7 months ago
As a non-techy person, I was under the impression from lots of fedi folks that it would either cost a fortune or otherwise be quite impractical to completely divorce ATProto from bluesky itself. However, as a WAFRN enjoyer, Gabbo seems to really know what he's doing, and he actually prefers ATProto over AP... What's the actual deal here?? Is it easier than expected somehow?
I saw it mentioned in this Cory Doctorow article a week or two back about some of his issues with bluesky, but he mentions here that the cost has came down from tens of millions a year down to tens of dollars a month
Hadn’t heard of wafrn until seeing it on f-droid this morning but I might give it a try, a tumblr-like platform would be nice since tumblr seems to have given up on using ActivityPub.
A lot of people’s research about bluesky is just the “How decentralised is bluesky really?” article by Christine lemmer-webber.
While the article was good at the time, and still has some relevant parts, a lot has changed since then.
Namely, relays got cheaper to run (about $30 a month).
Right now the problem is that everyone uses bluesky’s infrastructure (and PDS migration is a bit spotty, but bluesky is working on that).
Also: AP is pain. The spec was rushed and doesn’t include a lot of key details. Atproto was better thought out (at least in my opinion).
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 7 months ago
Pretty cool. I won’t get too excited until Bluesky (the company) is less than 90% of ATProto. Even mastodon.social is only like 27% of AP.
gabboman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
well I wont get that if YOU dont join
mesamunefire@piefed.social 7 months ago
Yep it should be spread out as much as possible.
gabboman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
thats… what wafrn does