One of the best parts is where she explains that bluesky cant scale down. You can run an activitypub server on a literal potato by design, but bluesky can’t ever be decoupled from it’s “eye of god” central architecture. The best case scenario for atproto federation is wikipedia or the Internet archive hosting a competing federated instance, but neither have stepped into that “millions/month” role.
I think the head technical lead at bluesky responded in a very respectful and technical way and did cop to some limitatoons why highlighting blueskys strengths. That reply is here.
I’ve never felt inclined to regard bluesky with hostility, but definitely wouldn’t call myself a fan; honestly that was a really thoughtful reply and improved my impression of bluesky as a platform
I hope they can avoid the pitfalls of venture capital funding and build a platform that doesn’t suck, even if mastodon will be my microblogging home on the internet :)
I have had my Mastodon account for a bit more than 6 years, it is great, it is boring, sometimes I don’t use it for a couple of months at a time, sometimes I binge on it and sometimes I have small little issues but for the most part it just works.
Yeah its a great read that people enjoyed a lot.
One of the best parts is where she explains that bluesky cant scale down. You can run an activitypub server on a literal potato by design, but bluesky can’t ever be decoupled from it’s “eye of god” central architecture. The best case scenario for atproto federation is wikipedia or the Internet archive hosting a competing federated instance, but neither have stepped into that “millions/month” role.
I think the head technical lead at bluesky responded in a very respectful and technical way and did cop to some limitatoons why highlighting blueskys strengths. That reply is here.
Thank you so much for the additional context!
I’ve never felt inclined to regard bluesky with hostility, but definitely wouldn’t call myself a fan; honestly that was a really thoughtful reply and improved my impression of bluesky as a platform
I hope they can avoid the pitfalls of venture capital funding and build a platform that doesn’t suck, even if mastodon will be my microblogging home on the internet :)
How is Mastodon? I’m a bit new to Fediverse and I’ve been wanting to try multiple things in everything really.
I have had my Mastodon account for a bit more than 6 years, it is great, it is boring, sometimes I don’t use it for a couple of months at a time, sometimes I binge on it and sometimes I have small little issues but for the most part it just works.