One thing that bluesky did very well was abstracting the decentralisation (i know, its not really decentralised, bear with me) was having “apps” be centralised. What if we just pointed people towards a lemmy.app thing and that had a server as default?

Alexandrite.app does this, but it defaults to lemmy.world which is a bit of a dealbreaker.

Edit: By “app” I mean client.

  • unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I’ve been using phtn.app, which defaults to lemm.ee.

    Though I think a big difference between the fediverse/activitypub and bluesky/atproto is authentication. If you want a centralized app, you gotta have a centralized identity server. Otherwise you’re freely giving your login credentials to a random server, which we as a society decided was a bad idea.

    I can see a possible solution involving OAuth, which I believe Mastodon is able to support. See the relevant GitHub issue at LemmyNet/lemmy#1368

    • irelephant 🍭@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      Yeah, bluesky and mastodon both use oauth.You can also give your username and password to a bluesky app, and until recently, a mastodon one.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      you’re freely giving your login credentials to a random server, which we as a society decided was a bad idea.

      Hey! I never agreed to that! I love playing fast and loose with internet security. You KNOW this about me! And I’ll stop giving my super secure password of Password1 to insecure servers when my heart stops beating.