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Totally agreed about BlueSky and all the crypto-related nonsense needing to go, but thinking that ActivityPub is the future is as naive as thinking the Linux de
by Nextgrid 4y ago
Totally agreed about BlueSky and all the crypto-related nonsense needing to go, but thinking that ActivityPub is the future is as naive as thinking the Linux desktop is the future.
There are significant technical, scalability and user experience challenges with ActivityPub-based systems that people refuse to acknowledge and address. Some of those challenges may not even have a good solution - turns out there are also advantages to centralisation, and fixing social media toxicity doesn't necessarily require throwing the baby out with the bathwater and going all-in on a decentralised solution.
- blacklight 4y agoI agree on the user experience challenges - although I don't think they are more insurmountable than several of the technical decisions taken by Twitter. On the technical and scalability side, what challenges do you see? I personally see a distributed system of instances as something much more scalable than a centralized platform.
- Nextgrid 4y agoSee my comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34052083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34052083.