Really interesting things afoot in social media. It seems like "W", a newly announced "European alternative to X" is actually a fork of the Bluesky code, and is, at least for now, kind of part of the Bluesky AT Proto network. (Thanks to @quillmatiq@mastodon.social for the explainer.)
And, apparently #Bluesky board member @mmasnick@mastodon.social really doesn't like the idea.
It will be fascinating to see how this develops.
https://atprotocol.dev/w-for-atproto/
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @quillmatiq@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social Mike always talks about decentralized social media but BlueSky and AT protocol haven't really moved the needle. Meanwhile in the fediverse there's Mastodon, Loops, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Miskey, etc, etc, etc...
@mike@thecanadian.social This is untrue. There are a number of independent apps across various verticals. Blogging: leaflet, pckt, offprint; Streaming: stream.place; Short-form video: spark; Git: tangled; and so many more, and none of them are directly dependent on Bluesky whatsoever.
This doesn't even count the microblogging competitors coming up that are full-stack independent of Bsky as well (Blacksky, Northsky, Gander, Eurosky etc.)
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @mmasnick@mastodon.social
@quillmatiq@mastodon.social @mike@thecanadian.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social
Feel like whenever this discussion is joined people start talking past each other.
It may be the case that the ATmosphere can be decentralized. And there may be small scale projects which test this potentiality. But the fact remains that it remains highly centralized.
Rob Ricci @ricci@discuss.systems has developed a metric to address this matter
https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
The purpose is not to dump on #Bluesky, but rather to establish meaningful context for these discussions.
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