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Seems like the crypto crowd is moving on to creating flaky decentralized twitter clones now

by Nick87633 3y ago

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Nick87633 3y ago
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- nkozyra 3y ago
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- ShamelessC 3y ago
  It got hugged to death too. Icing on the cake.
  - steveklabnik 3y ago
    The link is to mastadon, not bluesky.
    - bombcar 3y ago
      Talking about a flaky twitter clone in another flaky twitter clone. It’s inception!
ShamelessC 3y ago
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- rglover 3y ago
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mikeryan 3y ago
Bluesky was started within Twitter as a federated social protocol in 2019. Spun out in 2021 as a standalone company and it was also being used in the Crypto group at Twitter until Elon came in. I'm sure just because of its age and principals involved it's been heavily influenced by the crypto crowd. But suddenly, without anything else really stepping in to fill the void, it's the Twitter alternative of the day. Anyway not surprised to find some gotcha's like this all things considered.
- steveklabnik 3y ago
  > I'm sure just because of its age and principals involved it's been heavily influenced by the crypto crowd. It builds off of several specifications that came from the crypto crowd. It does not use a proof of stake or proof of work blockchain, though, so depending on how you use the words "crypto" and "blockchain," it either is or is not those things.
  - x-complexity 3y ago
    > > I'm sure just because of its age and principals involved it's been heavily influenced by the crypto crowd. > It builds off of several specifications that came from the crypto crowd. It does not use a proof of stake or proof of work blockchain, though, so depending on how you use the words "crypto" and "blockchain," it either is or is not those things. From the protocol's FAQ docs itself: > Is ATP a blockchain? > No. ATP is a federated protocol. It's not a blockchain nor does it use a blockchain. https://atproto.com/guides/faq#is-atp-a-blockchain https://atproto.com/guides/faq#is-atp-a-blockchain Architecturally, it's an attempt at improving ActivityPub in terms of account transfers & portability between federated instances, which ActivityPub doesn't inherently support. Mastodon, by comparison, requires one of those steps to be the explicit export into a locally-saved file, rather than communications between the federated instances themselves. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
    - steveklabnik 3y ago
      Yes. I agree with the FAQ. But I have heard decent arguments (that I disagree with) regarding what "blockchain" means by people I respect, and so I want to be respectful of that.

Seems like the crypto crowd is moving on to creating flaky decentralized twitter clones now

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Nick87633 3y ago

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nkozyra 3y ago
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ShamelessC 3y ago
It got hugged to death too. Icing on the cake.
- steveklabnik 3y ago
  The link is to mastadon, not bluesky.
  - bombcar 3y ago
    Talking about a flaky twitter clone in another flaky twitter clone. It’s inception!

ShamelessC 3y ago

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rglover 3y ago
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mikeryan 3y ago

Bluesky was started within Twitter as a federated social protocol in 2019. Spun out in 2021 as a standalone company and it was also being used in the Crypto group at Twitter until Elon came in. I'm sure just because of its age and principals involved it's been heavily influenced by the crypto crowd. But suddenly, without anything else really stepping in to fill the void, it's the Twitter alternative of the day. Anyway not surprised to find some gotcha's like this all things considered.

steveklabnik 3y ago
> I'm sure just because of its age and principals involved it's been heavily influenced by the crypto crowd. It builds off of several specifications that came from the crypto crowd. It does not use a proof of stake or proof of work blockchain, though, so depending on how you use the words "crypto" and "blockchain," it either is or is not those things.
- x-complexity 3y ago
  > > I'm sure just because of its age and principals involved it's been heavily influenced by the crypto crowd. > It builds off of several specifications that came from the crypto crowd. It does not use a proof of stake or proof of work blockchain, though, so depending on how you use the words "crypto" and "blockchain," it either is or is not those things. From the protocol's FAQ docs itself: > Is ATP a blockchain? > No. ATP is a federated protocol. It's not a blockchain nor does it use a blockchain. https://atproto.com/guides/faq#is-atp-a-blockchain https://atproto.com/guides/faq#is-atp-a-blockchain Architecturally, it's an attempt at improving ActivityPub in terms of account transfers & portability between federated instances, which ActivityPub doesn't inherently support. Mastodon, by comparison, requires one of those steps to be the explicit export into a locally-saved file, rather than communications between the federated instances themselves. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
  - steveklabnik 3y ago
    Yes. I agree with the FAQ. But I have heard decent arguments (that I disagree with) regarding what "blockchain" means by people I respect, and so I want to be respectful of that.