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Considering Meta is doubling down on disinformation, more people should go to Mastodon and Bsky over Threads or Twitter.
Is blue sky really ok? Considering who started it...
i don't think jack funded it he was just an original board member; but he left the board a month or two ago.
Yeah, it seems pretty good.
I'd agree. For now at least it's pretty good.
Hell no, fuck Bluesky. There is no reason not to adopt ActivityPub when trying to build an open, federated Twitter alternative. Except for power and control over the platform, its core protocol and ecosystem. Screw these guys, use Mastodon or anything on the Fediverse.
except they adopted atproto because it fixed issues with activitypub portability and sharing
This is their stupid excuse. They could still implement ActiviyPub as a secondary federation protocol. (Bluesky <-> Bluesky via ATProto, Bluesky <-> Fediverse via ActivityPub). They decided against it. It's an intentional choice, and they're just making up excuses.
i mean that's pretty much already done via third party and endorsed by the bsky team (i can already follow mastodon users on bsky and bsky users on mastodon);
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed
(shameless self promotion; my bsky account on my mastodon instance: https://tech.lgbt/@[email protected])
There are 3 issues with this:
I don't understand why anyone should use Bluesky with cheap hacks to attempt to fix Bluesky's poor design choices and or utter incompetence, if they could just use Mastodon and federate with the Fediverse over ActivityPub by default.
From a user perspective, Bluesky is just Mastodon with a recommendation algorithm. There is no other protocol required for this, everything could easily be done using ActivityPub exclusively. I will never care about Bluesky, since it tries to be the new Twitter, but the enshittification of Twitter began when they introduced their crappy algorithm, instead of just displaying tweets of accounts you follow in chronological order (like Mastodon does it).
to be fair it was originally not opt in but it was mastodon users who made an issue about it and forced the opt in version
and bsky has multiple algorithms because individual issues can create lists and feeds tailored to their needs.
it also has a straight forward following feed