The schadenfreude and gloating in the #fediverse about the #bluesky outage is indicative of the infantile tribalism that prevails around here.
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@mariusor I am trying to say that business models and profits may, or may, not have something to do with fundamental technical choices. There is nothing preventing a large non-profit entity to setup such infrastructure. This has been discussed here some time ago, from memory it would take Wikipedia level funding. Ok, what's so impossible about that.
Anyways, been around the fediverse since 2014. It's stagnating while the cancer expands. I don't think much of purist ideology that doesn't deliver
> I don't think much of purist ideology that doesn't deliver
@openrisk I'm doing my best, my dude, I'm doing my best... And so are many others.
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@openrisk btw, that also includes Mastodon GmbH.
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@openrisk I don't feel like you added any counterpoints to my arguments.
I was trying to say that when profit is involved the incentives of the social media institution are antithetical to the ones of its users. "Scale" is something that a true open network does not need to the same extent as a centralized one does. Open and federated network nodes care little about the number of users they have individually because they can be explored in aggregate.
I don't think BlueSky has, or will have, a business model in which they can sustain themselves without taking advantage of their users, either through ads, selling their data, or other capitalist methods.
> I don't think BlueSky has, or will have, a business model...
To be fair, I don't think most people building on top of their protocol expect anything what. The way I look at it, they're racing to build up the independent infrastructure before the inevitable enshittification.
Maybe you've already seen https://atp.fyi/network?
With Bluesky's funding, the community still has years to figure this all out.
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> I don't think BlueSky has, or will have, a business model...
To be fair, I don't think most people building on top of their protocol expect anything what. The way I look at it, they're racing to build up the independent infrastructure before the inevitable enshittification.
Maybe you've already seen https://atp.fyi/network?
With Bluesky's funding, the community still has years to figure this all out.
@mariusor And mind you, hosting the ATProto infrastructure will get cheaper.
Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)
Arguing whether Bluesky is "really" decentralized is increasingly becoming a moot point. "full-network atproto relay on a $4.20/mo VPS" https://bsky.app/profile/bad-example.com/post/3mfkrfvy3ok2u Running a PDS on a Raspberry Pi. https://justingarrison.com/blog/2024-12-02-run-a-bluesky-pds-from-home/ "A Bluesky appview focused on low resource consumption" https://github.com/alnkesq/AppViewLite "full-scale indie atproto relay [...] $30 CAD/mo" https://bsky.app/profile/bad-example.com/post/3lne2wvr5hc2b #bluesky #fediverse
Stefan's Personal Mastodon Server (stefanbohacek.online)
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@mellifluousbox they are not taking seriously their role as flagship ActivityPub project, and from the large amount of money they just received, zero of it will go into fixing their flawed ActivityPub implementation.
They are de facto isolating any ActivityPub implementation that obeys the specification and uses features that Mastodon's does not support.
They are Embracing, Extending, and I'm afraid, on their way to Extinguishing the protocol as it was published by W3C in favour of the quirky Mastodon version.
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> I don't think BlueSky has, or will have, a business model...
To be fair, I don't think most people building on top of their protocol expect anything what. The way I look at it, they're racing to build up the independent infrastructure before the inevitable enshittification.
Maybe you've already seen https://atp.fyi/network?
With Bluesky's funding, the community still has years to figure this all out.
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@mariusor Fair enough.
I just think there's a lot of people genuinely trying to build independent infrastructure for social media not dependent on billionaires. And some of them think ATProto is more suitable for that.
And that includes Blacksky. Maybe if the fediverse was just a bit more friendly, they'd be trying to do that here.
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@mariusor Fair enough.
I just think there's a lot of people genuinely trying to build independent infrastructure for social media not dependent on billionaires. And some of them think ATProto is more suitable for that.
And that includes Blacksky. Maybe if the fediverse was just a bit more friendly, they'd be trying to do that here.
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The schadenfreude and gloating in the #fediverse about the #bluesky outage is indicative of the infantile tribalism that prevails around here. It's pathetic because it indicates a lack of appreciation of the enormity of the challenge of defeating #surveillancecapitalism. In that totally uneven fight, fundamental ideas such as those embedded in #atproto and #activitypub protocols (and maybe others not yet gifted with a hashtag) must be explored as fast as possible and as deeply as possible.
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@openrisk in what way do you see Bluesky an attempt to defeat surveillance capitalism? from their 2024 arXiv preprint:
“….as Bluesky grows, there are likely to be multiple professionally-run indexers for various purposes. For example, a company that performs sentiment analysis on social media activity about brands could easily create a whole-network index that provides insights to their clients. Web search engines can incorporate Bluesky activity into their indexes, and archivists such as the Internet Archive can preserve the activity for posterity.” [pg. 5]
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@mellifluousbox they are not taking seriously their role as flagship ActivityPub project, and from the large amount of money they just received, zero of it will go into fixing their flawed ActivityPub implementation.
They are de facto isolating any ActivityPub implementation that obeys the specification and uses features that Mastodon's does not support.
They are Embracing, Extending, and I'm afraid, on their way to Extinguishing the protocol as it was published by W3C in favour of the quirky Mastodon version.
@mariusor I assume you're referring to the contract we've entered with @sovtechfund - to clarify: this money has actually not been received, we need to earn it by delivering the proposed work packages. We are now a member of the @w3c and are actively contributing to the newly-instated working group (and community group). I don't understand what interest we should have in Extinguishing the protocol (I can assure you it's not the case). Hope this helps.
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@mariusor I assume you're referring to the contract we've entered with @sovtechfund - to clarify: this money has actually not been received, we need to earn it by delivering the proposed work packages. We are now a member of the @w3c and are actively contributing to the newly-instated working group (and community group). I don't understand what interest we should have in Extinguishing the protocol (I can assure you it's not the case). Hope this helps.
@mellifluousbox then please dedicate man power to compatibility tickets. The one that bugs me the most is this one I opened **3 years ago**: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25588
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@mellifluousbox then please dedicate man power to compatibility tickets. The one that bugs me the most is this one I opened **3 years ago**: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25588
@mariusor Will have a look - thanks for bringing this to my attention. The amount of years an issue is open is unfortunately almost meaningless in an open-source project of Mastodon's size, reach, and complexity. @sovtechfund @w3c @openrisk
