If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires.
  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    161·
    12 days ago

    why? its incredibly top heavy. other than granting users the ability to semi-control their own data, it offers no benefit over a proprietary, walled-garden like twitter 1.0.

    no federation, still very centralized with an enormous barrier to entry should the central authority even allow it (bluesky certainly doesnt).

    whats to protect?

    • juli@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      whats to protect?

      The powers that be want to have a centralized control of the narrative in the future. These bluesly related posts are what VC money is for. Gaining more authority through pretentious constant media exposure before the insidious switch.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      Yeah, I feel like even federation through activitypub is already too centralised, and from what I’ve read running a bluesky node is orders of magnitude more expensive.

      You’d think with the way things are going someone would design something that’s more like the peer to peer networks from the past instead. For microblogging you could easily store enough messages from the people you’re following plus a bunch of proxy stuff on any phone.

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
        2·
        11 days ago

        AP is largely peer to peer. nodes only pass what is requested (subscribed) by users. it would only take a little tweaking to get nodes to pass that data from the non-originating node to make it even more distributed.

        so the potential is there for AP, its already in use by thousands of servers. its where we should be focusing our attention rather than this AT crap.

        youre right microblogs do not take a ton of resources, you can almost run a node on a phone, but they lack the static addressing needed. thats said, microblogging… blech.

        the threadiverse takes quite a bit more resources because its not just a single person shouting into the void at other single people. its conversational and therefore orders of magnitude more complex.