Bluesky relays, Mastodon discovery providers manton.org
@manton I loved how you framed the contrasting approaches. In a way, both are decentralized and centralized at the same time. I have a technical question about Bluesky. How is the user fully portable if there's a bsky URL attached to the username? Is there a forwarding similar to what happens on Mastodon?
@manton I loved how you framed the contrasting approaches. In a way, both are decentralized and centralized at the same time. I have a technical question about Bluesky. How is the user fully portable if there's a bsky URL attached to the username? Is there a forwarding similar to what happens on Mastodon?
@manton I sympathize with the lack of a firehose on Microblog, but the discovery feeds are extremely limiting, both the topics (objectively) and the tendency to repeat certain people's posts without revealing enough other people (my impression). FWIW, I am also agnostic about the two protocols. I'm more comfortable on Mastodon, but I could easily find a ton of people I already knew virtually via Bluesky.
@vladcampos When you rename your username to use your own domain name, the username doesn’t have bsky.social in it anymore. There’s also an identifier behind the scenes that persists even if you change hosting.
@manton Do you think it will become possible for Micro.blog to become an "instance" for Bluesky like it is for Mastodon/ActivityPub?
@manton Since you brought up the question of favorites and follow notices, I'll reply with my own perspective.
- Follow notices are mostly noise, and good riddance to them! Every so often, however, I get a notification of a name that means something to me. A friend, colleague or someone I admire.
- Likewise, follow counts are noise. Period. Full stop. Glad to see you don't support those.
- However, reblogs are great and I miss them from micro.blog. I follow a few mastodon accounts solely because they reblog great things.
- It should be relatively straightforward to generate a discover feed based on likes, reblogs and replies, if you were so inclined.
I understand and respect these points may not fit with MB's overall philosophy.
@manton yw. I hope you find it useful. And you have inspired me to switch off Threads cross-posting. I don't need another social platform, and Zuck is Elon with better table manners.