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That would be a smart and strategic move for twitter if they did. Along the lines of an embrace, extend, extinguish move against the fediverse.
by gonzo41 4y ago
That would be a smart and strategic move for twitter if they did. Along the lines of an embrace, extend, extinguish move against the fediverse.
- ilyt 4y agoI have a feeling that would just make most of the server owners ban it
- glenstein 4y agoTwitter apparently was working on their own protocol, under a project named BlueSky. I personally feel this was unnecessary and redundant because w3c had put forward activity pub. However, this project existed just the same. As far as I can tell, the Twitter and blog for the project have not been active since late October and I'm not sure if there's any life to it anymore. https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog
- technojunkie 4y agoHere's a contributor's (pfraze) reason for not using ActivityPub. https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/255#issuecomment-1287953987 https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/255#issueco...
- est 4y ago> a preference for domain usernames over AP’s double-@ email usernames This I strongly agree.
- kibwen 4y agoFrontends can just support both. In Mastodon, I can search for either `@username@example.com` or `https://example.com/@username https://example.com/@username` and both will suffice to show the same result.
- est 4y agoI prefer the email format, like username@example.com Double @ just look so ugly.
- simonw 4y agoThe problem with that format is that it had better also work as an email address, because otherwise people will be extremely confused by it.
- est 4y ago> better also work as an email address Sure why not? Make ActivityPub work over SMTP doesn't sounds like a bad idea.
- spookie 4y agoThat would imply that's an email, when in fact it's just a fedi account. It's there for a reason, another one (besides accessibility) is to make it easier parsing for other instances.
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- pfraze 4y agoBluesky is very active, we started beta testing 6 days ago https://twitter.com/arcalinea/status/1593439410699501570?s=46&t=_xRbgqgRPXdkNKNPVWoOyg https://twitter.com/arcalinea/status/1593439410699501570?s=4...
- devmor 4y agoI though Bluesky was Jack's pet project and unrelated to Twitter Inc.
- odo1242 4y agoIt was funded by Twitter, but under a separate organization.
- esjeon 4y agoBlueSky is completely different from AP. BlueSky is closer to decentralized SNS, where as AP is actively seeking to become a federated SNS. BlueSky uses DID and independent data repositories, which allows freely migrating b/w instances. AP simply does federation b/w rather classical blog hosting apps.
- rjmunro 4y agoAP is ActivityPub, the protocol behind Mastodon. But what is SNS? What is DID?
- esjeon 4y agoSNS is the usual Social Network Service. DID is Decentralized IDentifier. It's a design for decentralized identity registries, independent of central ID providers and authorities. Anyone can verify identity without going through the issuer. This is generally considered as a blockchain tech, though the spec is written in a generic way.
- nerdponx 4y agoI'm sure some senior decision makers at Tumblr also have this in the backs of their minds just in case this move works out well.