L. Rhodes (@[email protected])
merveilles.town
Attached: 1 image So… @[email protected] drew my attention to this: https://berjon.com/ap-at/ and as you might imagine, I have some thoughts—though not really about running AP on top of ATProto. I'm more interested in the quote below, which is, I'd say, a pretty solid encapsulation of one of the sales pitches behind #Bluesky. Specifically, it posits an inherent conflict between social media users and server admins, and posits ATProto as a way of shifting power toward users. The reality is more complicated than that, IMO.

Interesting thread that summarizes it well.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netOP
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    7 months ago

    I came away from reading over the AuthTransfer protocol and its handling of moderation/enabling users with a very major sense of, “We outsource almost everything!”

    Indeed, or rather the difficult and legally tricky parts are off-loaded to 3rd parties but the profitable parts (algorithmic indexer and the app view with advertisements) are very much still in the hands of BlueSky the company.

    • Dame @lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      It’s smart to offload the legally tricky parts. Versus here those fall onto admins