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This is a monumental day for the future of the social web, though it might not be obvious for a while. Mastodon matures its governance model with a great, solid non-profit https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/ and a coalition of independents push to open up Bluesky's AT Protocol: https://freeourfeeds.com/ These two moves together put the most credible players on solid ground for years to come — and set up the open platforms to enable lots of innovation just when it's needed most.
@anildash
Why should we care about bluesky? I came here to get away from billionaires.
@RnDanger Because it's an open, interoperable platform with millions of users and interesting apps being built on top of it
@spinbackwards @anildash @RnDanger No. It has to be bridged.
@ahltorp @spinbackwards @anildash @RnDanger We have a great bridge, though!
It's run by A New Social https://anew.social/
@evan @spinbackwards @anildash @RnDanger Bridges are good when you can’t solve it any other way, but a bridge is like trying to look out the window, and instead of seeing the full 3D landscape, you see all the objects like they’re decals on the window.
If you go to the next window, there is another set of decals there. The tree-shaped decal on both windows represent the same tree in the outside world, but to you they look like two distinct objects. Because you can’t see out the window.
@evan This is not a reason to not have bridges. They try to solve the problem as best they can, and I’m thankful that people do that, but it would be better if they weren’t needed. There’s always a loss of fidelity, and the bridge becomes a single point of failure between the systems.