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What are your thoughts on people self hosting their own websites and blogs instead of posting to big tech platforms? I’d say that extra openness was a good thin
by baliex 7mo ago
What are your thoughts on people self hosting their own websites and blogs instead of posting to big tech platforms? I’d say that extra openness was a good thing. I absolutely believe in privacy as well, and think ownership is important too.
- CactusBlue 7mo agoWe already could've done that before, just throw a HTML file on a HTTP server on a cheap VPS
- danabramov 7mo agoThat's pretty much what atproto is, except it's typed JSON rather than HTML, and HTTP+WebSockets to allow aggregation. I wrote more about how it works here if you're curious: https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/ https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/
- CactusBlue 7mo agoand I actually don't hate that bit (I really like lexicons, although I might have approached it in a different way) - what I hate is the aggregation layer. I know that it is possible to have an AppView-less atproto app (e.g. RedDwarf), but I feel like much of the ecosystem still defaults to the assumption that it will go through the Bluesky AppView.
- danabramov 7mo agoUnrelated apps (https://leaflet.pub/ https://leaflet.pub/, https://tangled.org/ https://tangled.org/, http://semble.so/ http://semble.so/) don't go through Bluesky Appview (since they need aggregations of different kind of data). I think aggregation is the only model that can compete with centralized services on UX, but of course different apps would need different backends.
- verdverm 7mo agoYou may be confusing the Relay, a protocol component run by Bluesky, with the Bluesky AppView https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers
- jeffbee 7mo agoThis is like saying anyone can open a lemonade stand in Mogadishu.