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AT seems cool — but it’s not built on the web. That’s a dealbreaker for me. I can’t link to a Bluesky post. I can’t use Bluesky from the browser. It’s a silo’d
by fogzen 1y ago
AT seems cool — but it’s not built on the web. That’s a dealbreaker for me.
I can’t link to a Bluesky post. I can’t use Bluesky from the browser. It’s a silo’d network.
The indie web has the right idea: Use the web, build ontop of blogs, degrade gracefully. We could have central aggregators just like Bluesky crawling the web with microformats.
The polished experience with Bluesky has little to do with the tech and everything to do with financing and talent. Give me millions of dollars in grants and I’m sure I can build a polished UX too.
- steveklabnik 1y ago> I can’t link to a Bluesky post. I can’t use Bluesky from the browser. What do you mean? Both of these things are trivial. Here is a link to my most recent post on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/steveklabnik.com/post/3lztkahefs225 https://bsky.app/profile/steveklabnik.com/post/3lztkahefs225 You can sign into bsky.app (or deer.social, or anisota.net, or...) in your browser and post just fine.
- fogzen 1y agoThose are proxies specific to that service, no? AT posts aren’t webpages, there is no canonical HTTP URL for an AT post, nor is the post an HTML document. Bluesky happens to provide an HTTP browser-based front-end, which is not part of the AT protocol. It may seem inconsequential to some, but AT is fundamentally hostile to the web. The goal of AT is to move syndication and content off the web to another network. No. I’m done with that.