mastodon is far, far, far more interesting than bluesky
this article is literally an ad piece
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The author definitely is on the fediverse: @mmasnick@mastodon.social
The article may be fairly positive about Bluesky but how Bluesky separates out various functions like feeds, moderation/labeling, and data storage/portability is a definite advantage that I think should be discussed.
@Spotlight7573 thanks for the heads up. I’m an idiot.
If you think Mike Masnick does not spend enough time on the Fediverse, you do not spend enough time on the Fediverse.
Yeah I was being a bit of an oblivious dick in my comment.
I still disagree with him though.
You’re not required to agree with him. But if your disagreement with the headline is stopping you from reading the article, you’re missing out. There’s some useful ideas described which Fedi-coders would do well to take notice of.
You’re right and I have since read the article properly.
I’m not a coder, just a casual, but it’s interesting, though I still disagree that it’s a good way to go.
What is there to disagree with? He’s describing what looks like a very good system for federation (especially moderation), not telling anyone which way to go.
The best type of ad is one that passes for something else, like journalism.
I heard that interview and have been casually digging into ActivityPub.
BSKY does account for a few more situations that ActivityPub currently doesn’t.
One is pluggable algorithms. This way you’re not tied to one kind of ordering in your feed.
Another is layered moderation so you can adjust automated vs human moderation policies.
And the last one is how to transport all your stuff to a different server under several different lockout scenarios. I’m still not clear which one’s better if your server just disappears or gets locked out.
In the long run, though, there has to be just one service. You can’t have Mastodon, Bsky, and Threads each with different functionality and incompatible islands.
