Comment by YtvwlD
3 years ago
Okay, yes, but this indicates that they didn't read the ActivityPub before developing their own new shiny protocol.
3 years ago
Okay, yes, but this indicates that they didn't read the ActivityPub before developing their own new shiny protocol.
Paul has lots of experience designing protocols. He designed SSB. ActivityPub does a lot of things wrong from first principals.
The whole point was to start from scratch.
> ActivityPub does a lot of things wrong from first principals
I'd be curious to learn about those.
There is a lot more information here: https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1511811083954102273?lang=...
From my own understanding, the biggest useful differences for me personally is: account portability, domains as usernames and content-addressable from the ground up.
- Account portability - Useful if/when you want to move between servers
- Domains as usernames - Ties into the same value as account portability. I've owned my own domain for decades, it never changes and probably won't, until years after I die
- Content-addressable - Caching and syncing becomes so much easier, which is a huge issue Mastodon currently suffers from.
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I don't personally believe that one mistake indicates ignorance of an entire topic.
In general - no, but this kind of fundamental mistake might.
I hope I never work on software you folks use. The grand claims about something that is not even hard to fix is just wild to me.
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The pull of NIH is a strong one.