Original post/thread: > If you're curious why everybody's username is a domain, it's because every user is essentially a website > A common thought by devs is

Original post/thread: > If you're curious why everybody's username is a domain, it's because every user is essentially a website > A common thought by devs is "couldn't you make a social network using RSS" and we basically went... yeah let's try that premise with some tweaks > Apps like Bluesky are aggregators. They crawl around the atmosphere like a search engine would the crawl the web, but instead of making a search app it makes a social app > When you post something, like something, make a reply, you're just publishing json on your site, and then that gets synced out in an event stream too > It's pretty weird that you can do it that way -- but you can! > The post I'm replying to now has a URL under my site. It's: > at://pfrazee.com/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6xwohhgax2x > This is how Bluesky is decentralized. In the same way that you can switch search engines and see the same web, you can switch social apps and see the same atmosphere. > It's because everybody's got their own site The thread continues ... Channeling dang: hey all, please try to keep this about the technology.