Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse
Zak@lemmy.world 1 month agoIt’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 month 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 month ago
When a substantial fraction of users are actually using an appview with that trait, that will be great.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Sure, but its not a fault of the protocol itself. You could easily choose to discard
articleornoteobjects on ActivityPub.Zak@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You can write software to filter on arbitrary criteria with ActivityPub, or email, or IRC, or virtually any other protocol. My point is that ATProto is designed to actively encourage it, and the flagship implementation does so. Subtle hints in interfaces have a big impact on how people, including developers use software.