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Any other embedded programmers or older people that remember what an AT protocol really is confused every time they see a story about Bluesky?
We might be getting old...
Pretty interesting rant until he harped on about capitalism, and this
> Criticism of Mastodon should be looked at seriously, especially when it's from black people, as this space is overwhelmingly white.
Any other embedded programmers or older people that remember what an AT protocol really is confused every time they see a story about Bluesky?
> It turns out using Git, which is almost always used with a centralized 'remote', to do federation, which needs to be weakly consistent, IS A BAD IDEA!!!!! Given that a user owns their feed, I'm not sure why this is a bad idea? I want to take this critiques here seriously but there's not a ton to grasp onto. It definitely didn't feel great that AtProto built from bare ground, reinvented json-schema & OpenAPI for no…
My limited understanding of the problem about git as the basis for user data storage is that it then would expose the complexity of git rebasing and the rest via federation. Git is great with a centralized remote (like I believe the original post is getting at) but less so in a federated setting.
It's not that bad. ATZ and ATDT are the main two you have to remember. Wait, is that not what we're talking about? So, it has a confusing name too?
Any other embedded programmers or older people that remember what an AT protocol really is confused every time they see a story about Bluesky?
Alice on server X follows Bob on server Y. When are Bob's posts delivered to X such that Alice may see them? Are they pushed from Y? Are they pulled by X?
Polling seems like an absolute disaster in an environment where people have an expectation of semi real-time communication.
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Between that and the bitching about capitalism it is hard to take the rant seriously. If you have a technical argument why the protocol is bad, adding political stuff on top of it makes it less credible.
Any other embedded programmers or older people that remember what an AT protocol really is confused every time they see a story about Bluesky?
To be fair, anyone who's worked with cell modems knows that the other AT protocol is also an obtuse crock of shit.