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Really interesting things afoot in social media. It seems like "W", a newly announced "European alternative to X" is actually a fork of the Bluesky code, and is, at least for now, kind of part of the Bluesky AT Proto network. (Thanks to @quillmatiq for the explainer.)
And, apparently #Bluesky board member @mmasnick really doesn't like the idea.
It will be fascinating to see how this develops.
RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/115936504290083253
@mastodonmigration @quillmatiq @mmasnick “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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Really interesting things afoot in social media. It seems like "W", a newly announced "European alternative to X" is actually a fork of the Bluesky code, and is, at least for now, kind of part of the Bluesky AT Proto network. (Thanks to @quillmatiq for the explainer.)
And, apparently #Bluesky board member @mmasnick really doesn't like the idea.
It will be fascinating to see how this develops.
@mastodonmigration @quillmatiq @mmasnick Mike always talks about decentralized social media but BlueSky and AT protocol haven't really moved the needle. Meanwhile in the fediverse there's Mastodon, Loops, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Miskey, etc, etc, etc...
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@mastodonmigration @quillmatiq @mmasnick Mike always talks about decentralized social media but BlueSky and AT protocol haven't really moved the needle. Meanwhile in the fediverse there's Mastodon, Loops, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Miskey, etc, etc, etc...
@mike This is untrue. There are a number of independent apps across various verticals. Blogging: leaflet, pckt, offprint; Streaming: stream.place; Short-form video: spark; Git: tangled; and so many more, and none of them are directly dependent on Bluesky whatsoever.
This doesn't even count the microblogging competitors coming up that are full-stack independent of Bsky as well (Blacksky, Northsky, Gander, Eurosky etc.)
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@mike This is untrue. There are a number of independent apps across various verticals. Blogging: leaflet, pckt, offprint; Streaming: stream.place; Short-form video: spark; Git: tangled; and so many more, and none of them are directly dependent on Bluesky whatsoever.
This doesn't even count the microblogging competitors coming up that are full-stack independent of Bsky as well (Blacksky, Northsky, Gander, Eurosky etc.)
Feel like whenever this discussion is joined people start talking past each other.
It may be the case that the ATmosphere can be decentralized. And there may be small scale projects which test this potentiality. But the fact remains that it remains highly centralized.
Rob Ricci @ricci has developed a metric to address this matter
https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
The purpose is not to dump on #Bluesky, but rather to establish meaningful context for these discussions.
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@mike This is untrue. There are a number of independent apps across various verticals. Blogging: leaflet, pckt, offprint; Streaming: stream.place; Short-form video: spark; Git: tangled; and so many more, and none of them are directly dependent on Bluesky whatsoever.
This doesn't even count the microblogging competitors coming up that are full-stack independent of Bsky as well (Blacksky, Northsky, Gander, Eurosky etc.)
@quillmatiq @mastodonmigration @mmasnick Can they post to each other?
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Feel like whenever this discussion is joined people start talking past each other.
It may be the case that the ATmosphere can be decentralized. And there may be small scale projects which test this potentiality. But the fact remains that it remains highly centralized.
Rob Ricci @ricci has developed a metric to address this matter
https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
The purpose is not to dump on #Bluesky, but rather to establish meaningful context for these discussions.
@mastodonmigration I was specifically calling out not moving the needle, which the community (and Bluesky for that matter) most definitely is. There are far more fully independent apps and infra in the ATmosphere than folks here give credit for.
I'm not getting into the normal "decentralization" conversation because, yes, we'll talk past each other, and it's difficult to have a meaningful discussion about it here.
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@mike This is untrue. There are a number of independent apps across various verticals. Blogging: leaflet, pckt, offprint; Streaming: stream.place; Short-form video: spark; Git: tangled; and so many more, and none of them are directly dependent on Bluesky whatsoever.
This doesn't even count the microblogging competitors coming up that are full-stack independent of Bsky as well (Blacksky, Northsky, Gander, Eurosky etc.)
@mike @mastodonmigration @mmasnick @quillmatiq this is partially true: yes, there are tons of cool atproto apps, and I'd say they span a wider range of things than are on the fediverse.
On the other hand, not all the things you mention as full stack are actually full stack, or even operational. They are also pretty small, so far. If you want to see how large some of these alternatives are, you can check out the "raw data" link under the Atmosphere on https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
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@quillmatiq @mastodonmigration @mmasnick Can they post to each other?
@mike Yes. There's standard.site that's being worked on across the blogging platforms I mentioned, and there's lexicon.community, which is an independent board that helps simpler interop happen.
Apps can also interop with the permission of the user by using the data in their PDS. For instance, blento.app uses a user's data across apps to build a webpage of all your ATProto content, and they didn't have to work with any of the apps directly to make that happen.
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@mike @mastodonmigration @mmasnick @quillmatiq this is partially true: yes, there are tons of cool atproto apps, and I'd say they span a wider range of things than are on the fediverse.
On the other hand, not all the things you mention as full stack are actually full stack, or even operational. They are also pretty small, so far. If you want to see how large some of these alternatives are, you can check out the "raw data" link under the Atmosphere on https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
@ricci the only one I mentioned that isn't fully operational is Offprint, but even that had it's first blog launch this week.
Why would you say they're not full stack?
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@mastodonmigration I was specifically calling out not moving the needle, which the community (and Bluesky for that matter) most definitely is. There are far more fully independent apps and infra in the ATmosphere than folks here give credit for.
I'm not getting into the normal "decentralization" conversation because, yes, we'll talk past each other, and it's difficult to have a meaningful discussion about it here.
@quillmatiq @mike @mmasnick @ricci
Understand that there are a lot of interesting and creative things going on with AT Proto.
The reason for referencing Rob's AWDY metric is to help with convos like the one between you and Mike. That is, he states it is not meaningfully decentralized and you reply with a list of apps and projects. He's talking about ground truth and you are addressing technological potential.
Perhaps decentralizable and decentralized, although that let's a lot of pushback.
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@ricci the only one I mentioned that isn't fully operational is Offprint, but even that had it's first blog launch this week.
Why would you say they're not full stack?
@mike @mastodonmigration @mmasnick @quillmatiq eurosky isn't running anything at all so far, not even a PDS so far as I can tell. Northsky runs a PDS, but uses Bluesky's relay and appview. I don't know about the others, except to say that they don't show up in the largest PDS lists.
Blacksky is the only one that's credibly full stack, and they opened beta access to their appview literally days ago.
There is a lot of buzz, and there is real stuff behind it, but it's also important to look at actual status and track it over time
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@mike @mastodonmigration @mmasnick @quillmatiq eurosky isn't running anything at all so far, not even a PDS so far as I can tell. Northsky runs a PDS, but uses Bluesky's relay and appview. I don't know about the others, except to say that they don't show up in the largest PDS lists.
Blacksky is the only one that's credibly full stack, and they opened beta access to their appview literally days ago.
There is a lot of buzz, and there is real stuff behind it, but it's also important to look at actual status and track it over time
@ricci oh! I specifically said "coming up" for that reason. My bad for the misunderstanding of your earlier reply.
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@quillmatiq @mike @mmasnick @ricci
Understand that there are a lot of interesting and creative things going on with AT Proto.
The reason for referencing Rob's AWDY metric is to help with convos like the one between you and Mike. That is, he states it is not meaningfully decentralized and you reply with a list of apps and projects. He's talking about ground truth and you are addressing technological potential.
Perhaps decentralizable and decentralized, although that let's a lot of pushback.
@quillmatiq @mike @mmasnick @ricci
So, while you are all here perhaps we should mention the issue of whether AT Proto is in fact really even "decentralizable".
The issue has been raised by @cwebber as to how the network scales geometrically as it goes wide. Have not seen anyone refute this.
https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/
This would render any real efforts to broadly decentralize effectively impossible. Have not seen anyone address this analysis.
Anyone?
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@mastodonmigration @quillmatiq @mmasnick Mike always talks about decentralized social media but BlueSky and AT protocol haven't really moved the needle. Meanwhile in the fediverse there's Mastodon, Loops, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Miskey, etc, etc, etc...
@mike @quillmatiq @mmasnick hey Mike Fraser you were in the audience when I gave this talk at #Fedicon weren’t you?
https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/beyond-microblogging-atproto/
It has a list of some of the many projects in the ATProto ecosystem
Please don’t erase the #ATProto community. We’re on the same side.
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Really interesting things afoot in social media. It seems like "W", a newly announced "European alternative to X" is actually a fork of the Bluesky code, and is, at least for now, kind of part of the Bluesky AT Proto network. (Thanks to @quillmatiq for the explainer.)
And, apparently #Bluesky board member @mmasnick really doesn't like the idea.
It will be fascinating to see how this develops.
@mastodonmigration @quillmatiq @mmasnick Which raises questions.
If this network is profiling with photo verification etc for all users , will it allow people to connect with other parts of Bluesky, where there are bots or unverified accounts? If so, the purpose is lost. However, if it remains closed to other parts of bluesky, it will most likely be isolated. I don’t think this will take off either way .
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@mastodonmigration I was specifically calling out not moving the needle, which the community (and Bluesky for that matter) most definitely is. There are far more fully independent apps and infra in the ATmosphere than folks here give credit for.
I'm not getting into the normal "decentralization" conversation because, yes, we'll talk past each other, and it's difficult to have a meaningful discussion about it here.
@quillmatiq @mastodonmigration @mmasnick @ricci My original comment was more about moving the needle in terms federated decentralized applications. No one Denies there's activity in the Atmosphere but does it fulfill the promise of independent but federated social media. In my mind it hasn't reached that high water mark.
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@quillmatiq @mike @mmasnick @ricci
Understand that there are a lot of interesting and creative things going on with AT Proto.
The reason for referencing Rob's AWDY metric is to help with convos like the one between you and Mike. That is, he states it is not meaningfully decentralized and you reply with a list of apps and projects. He's talking about ground truth and you are addressing technological potential.
Perhaps decentralizable and decentralized, although that let's a lot of pushback.
@quillmatiq @mike @mmasnick @mastodonmigration by the way, I posted the Atmosphere equivalent of this map over on Bluesky, or you can load the map and play around, it's interactive and lets you select between the social networks and apply other filters
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@mike Yes. There's standard.site that's being worked on across the blogging platforms I mentioned, and there's lexicon.community, which is an independent board that helps simpler interop happen.
Apps can also interop with the permission of the user by using the data in their PDS. For instance, blento.app uses a user's data across apps to build a webpage of all your ATProto content, and they didn't have to work with any of the apps directly to make that happen.
@quillmatiq @mastodonmigration @mmasnick So interop is being worked on through third parties? There's different interop for different applications?
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@quillmatiq @mastodonmigration @mmasnick So interop is being worked on through third parties? There's different interop for different applications?
@mike Yup - highly recommend reading up on Lexicons in ATProto!
If you want a really deep dive, I'm a fan of Kuba's breakdown of the system: https://mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/introduction-to-atproto/
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@mike @quillmatiq @mmasnick hey Mike Fraser you were in the audience when I gave this talk at #Fedicon weren’t you?
https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/beyond-microblogging-atproto/
It has a list of some of the many projects in the ATProto ecosystem
Please don’t erase the #ATProto community. We’re on the same side.
@boris @quillmatiq @mmasnick I was Boris, I'm just not sold on atmosphere as fulfilling my personal requirements for an independent federated space. Simply too many roads run through BlueSky which I feel has been captured. In any other time I wouldn't be as sensitive to this as I am now however my country is under existential threat and I simply don't feel that atmosphere can be trusted. The fediverse though not perfect self regulates more effectively and independently.
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@Gina @fosstodon That's great! In that case, could IBAN transactions become a thing for donations from within Europe? To me, this is the preferred and easiest option as there is no signing up to a third party or anything.
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@fosstodon @zeroase the server is hosted in France, the Foundation is based in the Netherlands 🙂
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Questa immagine l'ho incontratata qui sul fediverso alcuni mesi fa , e l'ho conservata .
Oggi ho avuto voglia di rimetterla in circolazione per farla apprezzare a qualcun altro che forse non l'aveva vista .
Non ricordo ne chi l'ha esposta , ne il titolo , ne l'autore .
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солидарность?
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@fosstodon @Gina Really glad to hear this place is doing well, thank you to everyone involved!
In which country is the foundation based?
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@neil happened to me so many times 😂 they should make rainbow-colored cables, why are they all black or white?
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