I just received my invite code today and took a quick look around the app. Like Mastodon I do not prefer microblogging platforms. And that’s all I know about Bluesky.

So, what can you tell me about this project?

  • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    @Natanael enshittification is about power, and ATproto is designed to look decentralized but enable secondary centralization where it matters for power dynamics in the network, in a way that the Fediverse very much doesn’t:
    https://rys.io/en/167.html

    (shameless plug, I wrote that, but it dives somewhat deep into the “why” of what I said above)

    tl;dr it doesn’t matter which PDS you use if everyone is still beholden to the same entity that controls the “reach” layer in BS.

    @SkepticalButOpenMinded

    • Natanael@slrpnk.net
      1·
      1 year ago

      https://slrpnk.net/comment/3996311

      You’re missing details

      The Mastodon fediverse have stronger network effects because big servers can enforce policies on other servers to stay federated. It’s complicated for users to move servers.

      In Bluesky you have plenty more options, including using 3rd party moderation, using clients which can pull censored posts from other servers and cleanly render them into threads, and you can move servers much more easily even if the server operator don’t want to let you.

      The “reach” layer is a mix of relay servers (BGS) and 3rd party feeds (which already are operated independently)