I recently finished the episode of The Verge's podcast #Decoder with the interview to Bluesky's CEO and it seems a quite interesting project. At the beginning I wasn't looking really into it because of their choice of using a new protocol instead of the existing ActivityPub, but after listening to her and the reasons behind this choice maybe I'll give them a chance.

What do you think? Do you use it alongside with the fediverse?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

So far my take is: Yet another microblogging platform?

But I'd like to read/hear something about the details... How does the protocol compare to other existing solutions? Are there free server implementations? How do they handle federation, would I be able to just connect to them and do whatever I want? Or do they retain tight control over the network?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Exactly what I was wondering the entire time I was listening. None of these questions were asked during the episode. A lot of handwaving and buzzword double-speak. She didn't go into any real technical detail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Agree. The episode partially answers some of those questions (of course with a biased answer, since it's given by their CEO), but I guess that for most of them we'll just have to wait and see