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bluesky is a popular-kids club with zero transparency unless you're in the club
I’m still waiting for an invite.
I have given up waiting for an invite.
Its clubhouse all over again.
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Federation will end faster than you can say “The Gmail web client does not have an interface for joining chat rooms on other [Jabber] servers” [0] 0. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12237/how-can-i-...
But Gmail is a web client for the greatest federation success story of all time?
Yeah, email is the biggest federation protocol.
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Except of course when for whaetever reason you won't be able to pay your DNS provider for some time, and you'll lose your identity to someone else. DNS is really not a good platform to build personal identity on.
DNS is good enough for companies, governments, schools, organizations, military etc. Not to mention that most other identities are tied to a DNS identity of some sort. Sure it’s not ideal as something completely trust less and distribute like PGP, but it’s been 33 years and no one can come up with a decent UX for that because it’s not really possible. $8 a year is a barrier to entry, especially if you consider people…
Yes, DNS is good enough for organizations (though I should note that governments don't rely on DNS registrars, they run their own). The crucial difference is that organizations can hire people to care about those things, or hire lawyers to ensure they can be recovered if accidentally lost. And in fact many of these organizations change domains in the longer run for various reasons. So even there, DNS is often only used as a solution to identity at one point in time, it's not meant as a permanent solution for the entire life of an organization.
For individuals, the cost of losing your domain is far too high if it means losing your identity on multiple services at the same time. And, if nothing else, people eventually die, so domains will be lost by their original owner and then re-used, breaking the notion of identity again in the longer run.
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Two at symbols still seems awkward to me, and I haven't got a chance to try to adapt to BlueSky yet. So that's a no from me, as a developer.
Two @ symbols? I think you're thinking of how Mastodon works. Bluesky doesn't work that way. Your username is the domain itself, not @username@domain. If you own the domain brian.pizza, your username can be @brian.pizza. If many users will share a domain, they are simply given a subdomain -- @brian.someserver.lol, etc.
Yeah, I was addressing both Mastodon and BlueSky in my comment.
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#196Unnecessary, pointless, expensive features are precisely how you define the inverse of the original Twitter vision. Bare minimum but fast message passing as a social communication layer. If all of these new platforms are trying to become a better or more bloated version of what Twitter has become , then they will never catch on like the viral tool that Twitter originally was. None of them learned the lesson of google…
Identity management is the biggest issue with social media. I'm on mastodon, but my "identity" is tied directly to the server instance that I'm on. If something happens to that server instance then I'm basically losing my "identity". If my "identity" was tied to a domain I owned then keeping it would be as simple as changing a few DNS settings. I don't know enough about Bluesky to say if it's actually going to be an…
>If something happens to that server instance then I'm basically losing my "identity".
This is why Mastodon instances should be run by user-owned nonprofit cooperatives so that there's accountability on the day to day operations to the people who depend on it and there's policies around continuity of service. This doesn't have to be hard, and it already fits into existing legal frameworks.
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Except of course when for whaetever reason you won't be able to pay your DNS provider for some time, and you'll lose your identity to someone else. DNS is really not a good platform to build personal identity on.
While there's some truth to this, it's more of an incidental problem with DNS than an intrinsic one. There's nothing preventing registrars from simplifying their UX to target average customers, including multi-year registrations and ample warning systems.
No, it's really a fundamental problem with DNS. Owning a DNS name is, by design, a temporary deal. Ultimately the domain name system is meant to help give a user-readable name to your IP, not to establish your identity for your entire life.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except of course when for whaetever reason you won't be able to pay your DNS provider for some time, and you'll lose your identity to someone else. DNS is really not a good platform to build personal identity on.
I think you can come up with a range of issues as to how this will eventually fail for some people, but what is a better alternative?
DHT based naming systems (GNS, IPNS, Tor Onion names), Blockchain based naming systems, Web-of-Trust style naming, there's lots out there.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except of course when for whaetever reason you won't be able to pay your DNS provider for some time, and you'll lose your identity to someone else. DNS is really not a good platform to build personal identity on.
I think you can come up with a range of issues as to how this will eventually fail for some people, but what is a better alternative?
Per-service identities, as we have them right now. Alternatively, government issued and policed identities.
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#200I don't get the argument that scaling is harder for startups than for Big Tech. 1. At Meta, you had to use internal "approved" tooling to build you product. which is far worse than products in open market. BlueSky can put it all on serverless like AWS Lambda and call it a day. 2. If funds are an issue, then raise more. There's no way around it. you had to scale sometime. Even if you optimise well, you'll still burn a…
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