Submitted 5 months ago by julian@activitypub.space to fediverse@lemmy.world
Check this out: https://nooki.me/
Looks like someone's built a Reddit-like on top of ATProto. Would be really interesting to see whether it could interact with the threadiverse through something like BridgyFed, which currently only works with microblogs (I think?)
Opportunity? Existential threat? You decide...
Threadiverse as in the Meta’s Thread?
As in Lemmy+Piefed+Mbin, the Reddit-like parts of the Fediverse
Why do ATProtocol projects tend to look so much more polished even in their infancy? Is that where the front-end people dwell?
That site looks like it’s closed source. FOSS projects tend to not be well designed in the frontend except the occasional gem. Not sure why it’s such a pattern
Form over function. They probably have aspirations of getting VC funding and for that you need to look like every other web app.
In a nutshell, it's because you don't have to build the entire kit and kaboodle all at once.
Lots of BlueSky is centralized so you don't have to worry about distribution, user, hosting, scaling, etc. and just focus on the frontend.
It's the same reason why all the Lemmy and Mastodon apps look way better than the web versions, because all those other parts are no longer relevant and the creator(s) can focus on just putting out a polished product.
I’d argue that the modular design is a more radical approach to decentralization.
I’m good with the ActivityPub threadiverse tyvm
No community modded groups, not a Reddit-Like, FrontPage is more of a Digg-like I guess? Anyway nookie looks way more useable.
Frontpage :: Hacker News/Lobsters
Early Reddit didn’t have those either, so I suppose it’s a proto-Reddit-like.
Interesting.
rglullis@communick.news 5 months ago
I think the most interesting opportunity here is that ATProto’s strength is that it was built for a “credible exit”, i.e, it allows users to migrate from any centralized network to a decentralized one.
IOW, it would be a lot easier to implement Fediverser on top of ATProto than of ActivityPub.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes, but only if you can do without instances. Instances seem to be important to many in the Fediverse.
rglullis@communick.news 5 months ago
Federation is not the natural unit of organization, that’s a hill I’m ready to die on. The problem is that most people get hung up on the idea of instances because they’ve only experienced the two extremes of siloed networks and the “Dark Forest” of blockchain.