Comment on What's your take on Bluesky?

Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Activitypub protocol is fine. It could use some minor improvements but there’s definitely no reason for an entirely new protocol.

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  • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I never said there was. I’d prefer it if they made AP better instead. And there’s a lot of room for improvement.

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• SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know much about their protocol

  As far as I understand, Bluesky is basically a central authority in their protocol. I wouldn’t really call that better than ActivityPub.

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  • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, there are many different aspects to take into account. I was thinking more of how inefficient AP is when it comes to system resources and network usage, and some other things I can’t remember that made me go “yikes” when I read it. Also how it’s used for things the protocol doesn’t really have support for, so devs make their own solutions that are now part of the AP Fediverse even though the protocol itself, that is the backbone of the thing in question, doesn’t support the things that is a part of the thing. It seems a big mess in many ways, and I believe that Bluesky doesn’t have those issues.

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    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can you be more specific? How is AP inefficient? What are the nonstandard extensions that devs have made?

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• shaked_coffee@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even if the corporate is a public benefit corporation with open source foss code both for server and client?

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  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    public benefit corporation

    They’re still for profit and corporate leadership and values can change. I wouldn’t trust it.

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  • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup. PBC is just a slightly different flavor of a standard corporation. Bluesky have investors, they’re burning investor money right now, they don’t know how to monetize the platform yet, and when those investors come knocking for their ROI it’s the same ol enshittification process all over again. No thanks. I don’t care if the backend is FOSS as long as it all revolves around a corporation, especially one with the roots of Bluesky. If there grows a viable and open community and ecosystem out of that, completely self-sustaining without the need for the corporation, using the FOSS code (or perhaps preferably a fork of it), then that’s a different story and that could be interesting.

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    • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its not FOSS anyways, its Source Available

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  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s how OpenAI used to describe themselves, too.

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