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Okay so this is some protocol reference document. What is one supposed to use this for / what problem does it solve?

• mdaniel 4y ago
  I'm guessing the previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33252108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33252108) will offer more insight, but the short version is "nothing" because it's just a spec
• wmf 4y ago
  It's decentralized Twitter.
• r721 4y ago
  This Gizmodo story is a good description of a current state of BlueSky/AT: https://gizmodo.com/jack-dorsey-bluesky-twitter-social-media-1849676675 https://gizmodo.com/jack-dorsey-bluesky-twitter-social-media... Analysis of protocol itself: https://havenweb.org/2022/10/19/bluesky.html https://havenweb.org/2022/10/19/bluesky.html UPD Related story on its future is also interesting: >Will Elon Musk keep funding Twitter’s most interesting side project? >Jack Dorsey wanted Bluesky to decentralize Twitter. Its future under Musk’s pared-down company looks shaky. >Bluesky was formally organized as a public benefit LLC led by software engineer Jay Graber in late 2021, and as of April, it had received $13 million from Twitter. https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/29/23428241/elon-musk-twitter-bluesky-decentralized-social-networking-future https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/29/23428241/elon-musk-twitt...
• grishka 4y ago
  So they saw ActivityPub and invented their protocol that achieves the same thing but does it in a much more convoluted way.