Re: Bluesky CEO in The Verge on how they are better than what ActivityPub can do

More on Bluesky :-

https://dev.to/opensauced/what-is-bluesky-social-network-and-why-are-developers-excited-about-it-i0f

Regards,

Aaron

On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 at 14:29, hellekin <hellekin@cepheide.org> wrote:

> On 4/21/23 00:49, Johannes Ernst wrote:
> > "We’ve designed a protocol that has three big things we think are
> > missing from the Mastodon ecosystem: account portability, global
> > discoverability, [and] composable, customizable curation and moderation.”
> >
> > (Note the article is about ActivityPub, not Mastodon, in spite of this
> > quote)
> >
> > Discuss. :-)
> >
>
> Account portability exists in Mastodon (from one M to another), maybe it
> needs to be clarified and extended across software.
>
> Global discoverability is not necessarily a desirable feature. People
> should be able to 'discover' each other through their own social
> network. Machines (and corporations, police, surveillance systems,
> marketing tools) should not be able to 'discover' human accounts.
>
> Composable, customizable curation and moderation is algorithmic
> moderation. I'd rather not leave moderation to a machine.
>
> Again, why is Bluesky CEO not willing to work with the community? Not
> Invented Here (NIH) syndrome or a hidden agenda? Neither: they want to
> do their own algorithmic, AI-served thing and the community is in the
> way. But we want to create tools to support social relationships, not
> destroy them for profit.
>
> ==
> hk
>
>

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Aaron Gray - @AaronNGray@fosstodon.org

Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher,
Information Theorist, and Computer Scientist.