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I don’t and I don’t want to, I hate it when everyone makes their own standard which means there is no real standard to speak of. There’s a xkcd exactly for that.

I’m using ActivityPub and that’s what I’ll be using as long as I feel it makes sense.

They could have made ActivityPub better, instead they made an incompatible protocol.

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shaked_coffee@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s almost exactly what I was thinking before listening to the podcast.

But there she explained how ActivityPub was missing some of the feature they wanted because of its instance-centric approach and how trying to change that would have been hard (given how sceptical towards changes and everything corporate-related the fediverse community can be), and so they opted for a new protocol since the goals of the two project were with different aims.

Still not 100% convinced tbh, but I can’t deny she has a point…

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- SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  instance-centric approach
  
  What did she mean by this? Could you be more specific about what she said? I don’t really want to listen to the podcast.
  
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  - shaked_coffee@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    She was saying that on Mastodon (that was the main activitypub platform she was comparing to) the choice of the instance can heavily influence your experience. If I don’t remember wrong her main points were:
    
    There’s a local timeline and a federated timeline, and even in the federated timeline you see your instance posts and the posts of the instances yours have federated with, not all posts
    
    A global search is not always the easiest thing to do, and previous attempts of project that would have facilitated it didn’t received much appreciation from the community
    
    If your instance admin do choices you don’t agree with (for example blocking another instance) the only way to interact with that other instance is to move yourself
    
    Moving from an instance to another means loosing your posts and replies, that would stay on the original instance
    
    She was not saying that this approach is wrong, in fact many people on Mastodon like this more community-focused and less-global approach, just that it isn’t what they wanted for Bluesky
    
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    SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Personally it basically sounds like decentralization (instance-focused) vs centralization (Blueskys approach).
    
    The fact that individual instances are in control of their user’s experience is a feature of ActivityPub, not a big. And it is exactly important for users to choose instances that align with their views - this makes the Fediverse democratic in a natural fashion. Or at least, it makes sure people get the experience they want, not the experience the global centralised entity wants the user to have.
    
    I definitely prefer and trust decentralization a lot more.
    
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