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When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

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768 points cyndunlop | 2 comments | 19 Feb 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.493s | source
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dang ◴[19 Feb 25 18:14 UTC] No.43105332[source]▶
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amazingamazing ◴[19 Feb 25 18:09 UTC] No.43105271[source]▶
I don’t understand the infatuation with blue sky. The minute they need money it’ll go the way of the Reddit and twitter.
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VectorLock ◴[19 Feb 25 18:13 UTC] No.43105326[source]▶
People seem to lark on and on about how it has better "default moderation" than Mastodon.
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verdverm ◴[19 Feb 25 18:19 UTC] No.43105407[source]▶
It's not that it is "better" but that the choice is individual, not up to the mastodon server. In Mastodon, you trade Elon for some other group of individuals, so what happens if they make decision on moderation or content you do not agree with?

ATProto is designed around accounts that are independent of data host, application, and moderation, all in the name of giving users individual control over these things. It's like if every Mastodon user ran their own server, but without the overhead

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1. VectorLock ◴[19 Feb 25 18:27 UTC] No.43105520[source]▶
>It's like if every Mastodon user ran their own server

No, it's like every Mastodon user used the same server, and all the coordination is done by one server that nobody can replicate.

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2. verdverm ◴[19 Feb 25 18:34 UTC] No.43105613[source]▶
Every user in ATProto gets their own database that amounts to a tar file (technically sqlite with car export format)

This is nothing like having a single server for every user. Perhaps you are confusing Bluesky (one app) with ATProtocol the shared network? There are already independent servers and apps operating separate from Bluesky