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Thinking about internet protocols like #activitypub or #atproto as just "social media", namely platforms for sharing cat images, influencers and followers, shitposting and memes, trolls and flamewars etc. is missing the point entirely.

These are merely emergent behaviors when people interact with primitive forms of "digital society".

In truth these are "societal media", they increasingly capture a good fraction of human reality. The masters of #surveillancecapitalism know this all too well.

After 4 hours of testing and "programming", i was finally able to make a Bluesky post thru the terminal, with a clickable link and a discoverable hashtag.

bsky.app/profile/reallylazybot

I spent 99% of that 4 hours trying with Typescript. 1% with Python.

It's clear that I am not and will never be a programmer lol

Bluesky Social · Da Linux Beardude's bot (@reallylazybot.bsky.social)#hashtag1 clickable link
#bluesky#at#python
There has been a lot discussion about whether Bluesky is truly capable of being decentralized or not, especially considering the costs of replicating some of the centralized services that Bluesky offers. That is a valid question that is subject to debate. Technically it can be decentralized, but so far hasn't been... for a variety of reasons.

I think that Bluesky and the Fediverse look at things very differently.

When the Fediverse looks at decentralization, they think of servers and platforms that could be run by individuals or small communities. Decentralized to the level of the individual. And the fediverse community seems to be adverse to large instances, as seen by many complaints that certain Mastodon instances are becoming too large.

But Bluesky is looking at the organization level. In other words, could another large organization create another competing Twitter on the AT Protocol? Or could some organization create a Facebook or TikTok equivalent on the AT Protocol?  Basically the concept of having the equivalents of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok all being able to talk to one another, all run by different organizations, not individuals.

Basically, how the AT Protocol becomes decentralized is when some organization creates a TikTok equivalent that uses AT Protocol, as an example, and they create their own AT Protocol stack to support it. One billionaire recently offered money to anyone who would build one.

So we are talking about different levels of decentralization here: the organizational level or the individual level.

I don't think these camps will ever agree on what decentralization means since they look at things very differently. Luckily these protocols can be bridged, and some platforms are multi-protocol, which would allow people to choose the level of decentralization they want.

#fediverse #bluesky #activitypub #atproto #atprotocol
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not sure what it means by “Record not validated” (especially as I can view the video in the app), but cool that my first video on Spark is on a separate lexicon!

They did it right (imo) in that they have their own lexicon, but also use Bluesky’s just to show content!

Thank you to Tori @buildwithtori.com for being a positive voice and covering things with video. While Bluesky is microblogging first, video is a great way to educate and express emotion and excitement, that can help us explain #ATproto to many more people.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:76iqtegcbbr4pbcxomka5pat/post/3ll5g2dttto2v

Bluesky SocialTori (@buildwithtori.com)👩🏽‍💻I like building fun stuff ✨Currently working on atproto TikTok @skylight.social

One of a number of take-aways from #ATmosphereConf

The Bluesky team had a whole session (IndieSky) set up so that others could set up their own parallel Bluesky infrastructure.

The Bluesky team even wanted to make it less expensive for people to do it.

BUT — most the people in the room didn't seem interested in that per se.

Most the people in the room wanted their own ATProto infrastructure for their own applications / platforms built on ATProto.