I generally agree, except in the case of Bluesky specifically.
They have enough control of their protocol and platform to effectively be proprietary. The “decentralized” idea there is not much more than a marketing gimmick.
I mean, if you’re just gonna say the quiet part out loud… yeah, people just don’t like that Bluesky implemented a different version of AP in a corporate site and are desperately seeking ways to differentiate it and find exceptions to the rule because the whole “everything should be interoperable with everything” thing was always kinda bullshit and what people meant was “everybody should be in our playground where everything is interoperable among the things we like inside our playground”.
I find both of those versions of interoperability more appealing than everything being siloed and consolidated, but it was a disappointment to come to that realization. Which, granted, happened with the whole Threads federation debacle. Fedi fans going through that loop a second time and being impotently angry at Bluesky from a distance is relatively benign in comparison, except for the part where both should have integrated much more closely by now and both are being harmed to at least some extent by being slow at moving that forward.
I just would have liked for everybody involved to have been less dumb about this and maybe to have killed Twitter instead of letting its ambling zombie eat their lunch all over again. But here we are.
I generally agree, except in the case of Bluesky specifically.
They have enough control of their protocol and platform to effectively be proprietary. The “decentralized” idea there is not much more than a marketing gimmick.
I mean, if you’re just gonna say the quiet part out loud… yeah, people just don’t like that Bluesky implemented a different version of AP in a corporate site and are desperately seeking ways to differentiate it and find exceptions to the rule because the whole “everything should be interoperable with everything” thing was always kinda bullshit and what people meant was “everybody should be in our playground where everything is interoperable among the things we like inside our playground”.
I find both of those versions of interoperability more appealing than everything being siloed and consolidated, but it was a disappointment to come to that realization. Which, granted, happened with the whole Threads federation debacle. Fedi fans going through that loop a second time and being impotently angry at Bluesky from a distance is relatively benign in comparison, except for the part where both should have integrated much more closely by now and both are being harmed to at least some extent by being slow at moving that forward.
I just would have liked for everybody involved to have been less dumb about this and maybe to have killed Twitter instead of letting its ambling zombie eat their lunch all over again. But here we are.