Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse
Zak@lemmy.world 1 day agoIt is likely most other software will be able to consume them.
This highlights what I believe to be a poor choice in the design of BlueSky’s AT Protocol; ActivityPub software is usually liberal in what it accepts and displays, while ATProto enforces schemas (“lexicon”).
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It usually comes down to a difference in vision, the fediverses schtick is that you can follow Reddit from Twitter or whatever, whereas on atproto you use a different appview for different formats, like frontpage.fyi for links, and whtwnd.net for blogging.
Zak@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s a difference in vision, but I don’t like BlueSky’s vision here.
Combining the Reddit-like and Twitter-like experiences in one place is a little awkward, but following a blog or a Youtube-like from a Twitter-like isn’t. Having the option to switch to a more optimal appview is great, but realistically a lot more people would follow a blog from BlueSky than would use their BlueSky identity to sign into WhiteWind.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Well, it’s a bit more than just using their identity to sign in, data is also stored on their PDS.
It’s entirely possible to make a server that accepts several different lexicons, wafrn plans on doing this for articles.
Zak@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When a substantial fraction of users are actually using an appview with that trait, that will be great.