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Oh yeah Bluesky lol Took them years to launch a stripped down Twitter clone. Nostr at least had that obscurity thing going for it. Both were like "Ok? Now what?
by _akhe 2y ago
Oh yeah Bluesky lol Took them years to launch a stripped down Twitter clone. Nostr at least had that obscurity thing going for it. Both were like "Ok? Now what?"
People are over Web3 protocols. We have torrents, email, git, and other decentralized technology that was invented to solve specific problems - this idea of inventing a social media protocol is cool, but it comes with all this baggage. It's a for-profit company - wait it's not a for-profit company - it's decentralized - wait it's not decentralized.
This dance never happened with a Napster or a Popcorn Time - it was very clear what the decentralized utility was, and it was really a means to an end of getting to the content. But Bluesky doesn't have any content I want, especially not badly enough to jump through those hoops, or use like a B-version of the real thing. It's like building a new restaurant to compete with the best steakhouse in town but you focus on the trays instead of the food.
- axblount 2y agoExactly. And it's hard to overstate how little the average user cares about the AT Protocol. "You can change providers!" "You mean sign up on another website? Like when I moved here from Twitter?"
- paulryanrogers 2y agoYou can take your stuff with you. Or at least that's the promise
- ssahoo 2y agoWhen we started Rittr (Plug https://rittr.club https://rittr.club), we challenged ourselves with 3 protocols, AT, ActivityPub and nostr. Everytime we went back to whiteboard on why RSS end Email inbox is better (or simpler) than all of above. We still plan to support ActivityPub eventually to be compatible with Mastodon network but sticking with RSS for now. Even RSS has 3 flavors. :)