If people leave #Mastodon for #BlueSky, good:
#SocialMedia is becoming more fragmented instead of centralised in a handful of platforms.
Me? I'll stay on Mastodon cos I believe anything that uses #ActivityPub has a bigger potential to grow.
BlueSky uses their own protocol & I have a feeling they don't want to share.
Also, the million-dollar question - how do they plan to monetise? Unless it's a non-profit, #enshittification may be inevitable.
Bluesky is already sharing, though.
They are still early, they are still in beta, and it looks like their documentation is incomplete. I imagine they will finish it in due time.
But so far it's looking like their protocol is better than ActivityPub in terms of empowering users, so I'm all for that.
@volkris Honest question - in what way will it empower users?
ActivityPub is all about instances. All the power goes to instances. For example, if you want to move from one to the other you have to rely on the instance you are leaving to support the redirect to your new home.
Bluesky is more focused on users so it doesn't matter where you were, people will find you at your new home.
@volkris That's actually not bad at all. Maybe activity pub can one day do this too. May the best protocol win?
Well it's a big issue that these are designed decisions that go to the core of the protocol. These are how they are engineered in the first place.
It's like saying, yeah we decided to build a dump truck, but can we make it a sports car? Can we make this giant massive dump truck go really really fast?
The answer is no. Without completely ripping out and redoing the core of the protocol, without alienating everybody who has already bought into the protocol, that change can't be made.
ActivityPub made its choices that can't really be taken back now.
And we live in a world where a whole lot of best protocols didn't win. That's just how it goes.
@volkris Interesting! Well, no matter how good that protocol is my concern is that it still has a for-profit motive, so that makes me concerned about how the platform will turn out in the future.
Ha, see I like it when someone doing something good for me has a profit motive. It means they're more likely to keep at and not get bored and wander off.
That's why I pay my doctor :)
So long as they produce a system that's open and resistant to capture I hope they can make all the money they want, so it doesn't turn into yet another half-finished hobby project.
