Despite resembling Twitter so much, Bluesky is set to have some technical features designed to make it very different from Elon Musk’s social media giant. The platform aims to provide a decentralized social network protocol, which is expected to make its user data free from influence by any government or corporation.
Bluesky is built on the AT protocol, a new federated social network that integrates ideas from the latest decentralized technologies. Originally known as the authenticated transfer protocol, or ADX, the AT protocol is Bluesky’s main effort to enable a new way for servers to communicate with each other, allowing individuals and businesses to self-host and have multiple websites instead of one.
IMO bluesky’s protocol is to complicated. Just try to read it. https://atproto.com/docs
At it’s heart, both bluesky/atproto and nostr are just trying to use public keys which can be verified cryptographically as the user identify. So that user’s fully control their identity as only they have their private key. In the fediverse there is nothing really stopping a site admin from just taking over an account. Which kinda feels like digital rape.
atproto goes to far and starts talking about key rotation and many other things that in practice is just gonna make people not use it.
It has funding but I’m gonna guess there is only going to be a handful of bluesky instances and ultimately people will user other technologies.
Maybe if lucky it will help add new ideas to w3 web specs on decentralized identity.
That said I hope i’m wrong and it becomes widely successful and everyone starts using it as it is better than centralized social media.
thought this was gonna be about nostr
Hopefully bluesky can bridge with activitypub so we can all chill out with whatever platform we want to use.
He seems to be supporting both
Nostr came after BlueSky I think
