With BlueSky moving towards finally opening up federation, I’m interested in how people feel about it?
Would you be open to the idea of Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and other Fediverse platforms adopting the AT protocol in order to federate with it?
If those technical hurdles could be overcome, would you support your instance federating with BlueSky?
Does the same go for other commercially-owned platforms, such as Threads and Tumblr?
This came to digital blows over whether to federate with Threads not so long ago. A LOT of us said hell no to letting Meta’s data vampirism and sociopathic surveillance back into our networks.
I can’t talk about the others involved in BlueSky, but I think Jack Dorsey is genuniely regretful about how Twitter turned out and truthful in his intentions to make a decentralized alternative. I wouldn’t equate BlueSky with the rest of Big Tech. The XMPP creator sitting on the board and the CEO being someone who worked on Zcash, they can’t be that bad.
the CEO being someone who worked on Zcash
I wouldn’t consider any link to the cryptocurrency world a positive thing.
it’s a privacy coin. not a very good one, but still. They’ve been around for long, so relatively credible when it comes to crypto.
I get why people have soured to crypto, but secure private cryptos like Monero is by far the best solution for digital money.
Because banks and governments have proven time and time again that they can’t be trusted with money. They screw over the working class every time.
If they’re just a little bit better, it’s an improvement. If we have to win through salami slicing, so be it.
Federation alone would be a massive improvement already. Because it practically infinitely increases competition to do better, since there was zero before.
It’s all about setting up incentive structures so the ones in power and even the biggest assholes are compelled to do the right thing. And federation is a giant step in that direction.
Let’s have this conversation once BlueSky is actually open
