turns out we were MENTIONED in a slate article: https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/jack-dorsey-open-decentralized-twitter.html
@lain bluesky sounds like a textbook case of Not Invented Here syndrome
@realcaseyrollins @lain Yes, and I think that's a good thing. But they are spending resources to create something that already exists, which I think is a bad thing if they are only doing it so they can slap their name on it.
If they actually make a protocol with technological advantages over ActivityPub, that would be fantastic. I'm not sure they will do enough to warrant avoiding the existing millions of people and dozens of applications that already implement ActivityPub though.
If they actually make a protocol with technological advantages over ActivityPub, that would be fantastic. I'm not sure they will do enough to warrant avoiding the existing millions of people and dozens of applications that already implement ActivityPub though.
@robby @realcaseyrollins @lain Where's that picture where ActivityPub goes "that's literally me in the picture"?
@besserwisser @lain @robby I actually wrote a piece about this awhile back
https://counter.fedi.live/objects/c3b77215-8a69-4295-b95a-78eb3086bc91
The goal of bluesky (as I understand it, I admittedly have done nothing more than skim the announcement linked in the article) is to "invent" a decentralized protocol for social media. ActivityPub already is this, but Dorsey can't get credit for inventing ActivityPub, so they want to reinvent it. Hence, NIH syndrome.