I am thankful that I do not need to say „thankyou“ to #Bluesky, the company and its investors for the verification of accounts or to ask them for changes in their configuration so that my social media platform is working.
It shows how dependent #Eurosky and #ATProto still is on Bluesky. They are at the mercy of them. And I do not trust Eurosky to be ever free and fully independent, even if I really want to believe in it.
Please change my mind, but for now I keep on building on ActivityPub.
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Sascha Foerster • • •thank you for sharing this Sascha 🙏
I’m super grateful you’re here, building on ActivityPub
Jaap-Henk Hoepman 🟥 ⬜️ 🟩 ⬛️
in reply to Sascha Foerster • • •Sascha Foerster
in reply to Jaap-Henk Hoepman 🟥 ⬜️ 🟩 ⬛️ • • •- Verification is easy in ActivityPub (AP): If I am on A, I can verify without any interaction of instance B. (Of course verification in ATProto (AT) and AP are different verifications anyway, AP verifies links, AT verifies accounts AFAIK).
- Rate limits: Users of A in AP do not care for any rate limits on B when talking to each other or other instances than B. All Eurosky-PDS-users are limited by Blueskys rate limit now in AT.
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Sascha Foerster • • •great explanation Sascha… basically ATProto has a central authority (Bluesky PBC) and even most forks rely on it for verification and the relay / firehose.
I said most forks because Rudy Fraser’s Blacksky has done an incredible job setting itself free from Bluesky. Not sure about how Blacksky handles verification though…
@xot @aerique