[HN Gopher] Bluesky's AT Protocol - Federation Architecture Over...
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Bluesky's AT Protocol - Federation Architecture Overview
Author : capableweb
Score : 38 points
Date : 2023-05-05 19:33 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| quaintdev wrote:
| > The BGS handles "big-world" networking. It crawls the network,
| gathering as much data as it can, and outputs it in one big
| stream for other services to use. It's analogous to a firehose
| provider or a super-powered relay node.
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| I think we should abandon whole idea of feed. Instead give me
| people/account/tag specific feed like Instagram or WhatsApp
| stories. With this I choose what I want to see. It would
| drastically reduce noise and my time on platform. The platform
| should be delight to use not something that is constantly trying
| to suck me into drama.
|
| This would also eliminate need of Big Graph Services.
| 12907835202 wrote:
| Google plus circles?
| tedunangst wrote:
| That's how it works without the BGS. You don't have to use it.
| Follow whoever you want, see their posts. Done.
| ilaksh wrote:
| Has anyone done an in-depth comparison between Locutus and
| Bluesky? https://github.com/freenet/locutus
| quaintdev wrote:
| Examples of what can be built on Locutus include:
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| - Decentralized email (with a gateway to legacy email via the
| @freenet.org domain)
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| - Decentralized microblogging (think Twitter or Facebook)
|
| - Instant Messaging (Whatsapp, Signal)
|
| - Online Store (Amazon)
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| - Discussion (Reddit, HN)
|
| - Video discovery (Youtube, TikTok)
|
| - Search (Google, Bing)
|
| Bluesky is just a decentralised social media.
| bovermyer wrote:
| ...email is already decentralized, though.
| f38zf5vdt wrote:
| I still don't comprehend why Dorsey didn't just try to make the
| largest ActivityPub server on the web. Instead we get a haphazard
| rewrite of everything ActivityPub has already solved and a zany
| "you need an invite to get into this club" airdrop that feels
| dated to gmail 20 years ago. The service feels too much like
| "Elon bought Twitter, now we need to make Twitter again". That
| Dorsey is the principal investor makes it hard to think that it
| is anything else.
|
| The only market it seems to be gaining traction in from my
| perspective is millennials who have nostalgia for old Twitter --
| and as someone who grew up with old Twitter, I can say I don't
| really miss it.
| mastodon_acc wrote:
| Who runs the BGS? It's the most expensive part, a few
| "centralized" providers will run this? What if BGS injects its
| own filtering? Honestly this sounds like a more complicated way
| of implementing centralization
| tedunangst wrote:
| Effectively yes. It's roughly a giant follow bot, run by those
| with the resources to do so. If you don't like its filtering, I
| guess you'd switch to another more to your liking.
| [deleted]
| china wrote:
| Fun to see this pop up here:
| https://staging.bsky.app/profile/newsycombinator.bsky.social...
| tedunangst wrote:
| Can't wait for the day bluesky discovers it's possible to
| render content for visitors who aren't logged in.
| wesleytodd wrote:
| It is an invite only beta on a staging domain.
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