biigggg news!
new era for the atmosphere just started
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rb2azdxlnr2dwpuzhwdro7q2/post/3n22ilbtn2227
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hmm i see this as major news for the atmosphere becoming legitimately more multi-stakeholder
as for VC ROI, there are business models that align with an open network: infrastructure, dev services, payments
i really don't expect our business model to resolve around the bluesky app
baked into our company values is that the company as a future adversary. if you're concerned about bluesky's incentives changing (i am too), I can promise you that that is not where the company is at right now
we're doing everything we can to make the atmosphere resilient & multi-stakeholder
I think we spoke at fediforum. that the advantage of AT over AP comes down to UX basically and that requires everybody to be using bluesky infrastructure.
you can see everything (sorry, had to).
true decentralization will make you just like us. the experience will be worse than the big platforms. imo we should work on that together using one protocol, and explain to the public why the tradeoff is worth it. freedom from corporate power, civic and cultural democracy.
I deeply and fundamentally reject the notion that the experience will be worse than the big platforms
I truly think if you believe that about your technology then you've already lost
we can make it better but it's a very similar issue to PCs vs the Apple ecosystem. the latter will be smoother but less able to quickly adapt to outside opportunities.
on fedi, we have lots of servers that don't want to be searchable or want to fediblock lots of other servers or implement AP strangely or use weak hardware etc. those are all not problems if you only look at mastodon dot social. the same will be true of bluesky vs a more decentralized ATmosphere.
that go for the rest of us in the atmosphere too? i’d like to think streamplace still is pretty good even when bluesky pivots to coal power and orphan murder or whatever
maybe but my guess re bluesky is that they want to be the Google of social media. the web is decentralized but so much of it runs through Google that it's not as free as it should be. Fedi develops slowly but it doesn't have the problem of bluesky deciding that even if Link is now on blacksky, bluesky gets to decide that the vast majority of AT users can't interact with him cause they are on bluesky.
is streamplace like #owncast?
I mean yeah Bluesky’s big percentage of the network is a problem, working to chip away at that over here
And yes! Like a multi-user Owncast, open-source and self-hostable in exactly the same way
@dholms.at
please just tell us how you're going to deal with the VC ROI. until then trust is impossible. we've all just been burned too many times.