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Yeah the typical issue of "they could go bad" is always present. Really that's internet services history in a nutshell. You use the thing, you move when you f
by duxup 2y ago
Yeah the typical issue of "they could go bad" is always present.
Really that's internet services history in a nutshell. You use the thing, you move when you feel motivated.
- diggan 2y ago> Yeah the typical issue of "they could go bad" is always present. It's at least refreshing to see Bluesky PBC try to prevent it by setting up guardrails themselves, like allowing people to host their data somewhere else, which seems to work today already. Here's to hoping the federation stuff shapes up nicely too.
- verdverm 2y agoThe community is organizing the first ATProto Developer Conference, Seattle, March 22-23 Getting together to show and talk about building the next gen of social media https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf-confirming-date-seattle/ https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf-confirming-date-seattl...
- diggan 2y agoThat's awesome to hear! You happen to know about something similar but outside of the US? Any continent is fine, even Canada or Mexico would be OK.
- verdverm 2y agoNo, this is totally grassroots by the people, though it is in the same city Bluesky is located. This kind of thing is just getting started, it is actually a guy from Vancouver that is taking the lead on this one. I'd recommend - getting on the ATProto dev Discord: https://discord.gg/VweB8gn5 https://discord.gg/VweB8gn5 - getting involved with: https://github.com/lexicon-community/lexicon https://github.com/lexicon-community/lexicon - using the #ATProtoDev hashtag There is a lot of overlap in the people and the developer community is starting to snowball
- diggan 2y agoThanks, I've already developed a bunch of tools, services and feeds for Bluesky, so I'm well aware of the general ecosystem, was just looking for physical events to attend to outside of the US. Thanks though, and I'm sure others will find your brief overview helpful :)
- davidw 2y agoI have friends on Blue Sky that I first met online on IRC in the 1990ies. You just keep migrating and finding your people over time, I guess.
- duxup 2y agoYup. It's 2025, internet patterns are becoming clear-ish. Services rise, fall, people move for lots of reasons. It's the nature of the internet now.
- PLenz 2y agoYou can see why this site in particular would not like that story. Network effect is major part of many pitches and valuations.
- duxup 2y agoThe forum here is interesting. I agree with your premise, but sometimes it doesn't shake out that way. Weird dynamic. Granted network effect does "work" to some extent.
- cma 2y agoBut now your municipal water supply only puts out boil water notices on Facebook..
- Maken 2y agoThe downside is the constant 'rot' of online content. I know most of it was not very valuable, but I find sad how little of our small scale, daily life record will be left after the walled gardens inevitably go down and the server data erased.
- duxup 2y agoI agree, it does feel like a lot is lost. Geocities is out there for download, but ... still not the same, even with Internet Archive doing its thing.