When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
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#2Note that all of this reflects design decisions on Bluesky's closed-source "AppView" server—any federated servers interacting with Bluesky would need to construct their own timelines, and do not get the benefit of the work described here.
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#3Note that all of this reflects design decisions on Bluesky's closed-source "AppView" server—any federated servers interacting with Bluesky would need to construct their own timelines, and do not get the benefit of the work described here.
What reason does Bluesky give for not opening up their AppView code?
Another notable component that is closed source is the discovery feed generator, where at least there is some reason.
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I don’t understand the infatuation with blue sky. The minute they need money it’ll go the way of the Reddit and twitter.
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I don’t understand the infatuation with blue sky. The minute they need money it’ll go the way of the Reddit and twitter.
If everything good is assumed to eventually become bad, why not use things while they are good and then immediately move on when it becomes bad?
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#10Note that all of this reflects design decisions on Bluesky's closed-source "AppView" server—any federated servers interacting with Bluesky would need to construct their own timelines, and do not get the benefit of the work described here.
What reason does Bluesky give for not opening up their AppView code? Another notable component that is closed source is the discovery feed generator, where at least there is some reason.
what else? profit by means of doing work that benefits first and foremost the private proprietors of the closed source
if they gave it away (which used to be unfeasible until the digital era) they feel they’re loosing their valuable effort which they’re wont on concentrating, not diluting.