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 see: the current platform you are using.
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.
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.
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.