Why Micro.blog is supporting Bluesky now: manton.org

@manton I am not trusting Jack again.

@steveriggins From what I can tell, Jack mostly posts to Nostr now. 🙂 Anyway, the point isn’t to put faith in one person but to support open platforms that care about content ownership.

@manton @steveriggins it’s like we’re offering cool water for those in hell a not as great place.

@manton this is great! Already enabled on mine. Whilst atproto is not a W3C standard, it is open. I like what they are doing - content moderation, modular filtering algorithm, decentralization.

At the moment, Micro.blog is the bridge between ActivityPub and atproto - soon, I hope, atproto will bake-in ActivityPub, or at least interface with it.

@manton It would be great to have an Interverse, an interconnected network of federated networks that can talk to each other.

@steveriggins I think Jack is only one of the investors.

@yury I get that, but that is bad enough. He has a huge influence in this space.

@steveriggins Does he though? I don’t think he cares about it too much, mainly focused on Block.

Forbes had a good feature story on Bluesky and what makes it independent.

Personally I quite like the approach in terms of account portability and a marketplace of algorithms.

@amoroso @manton This is the first I have seen anyone use the term #Interverse. I like it. It comes with the connotation of Internet and Universe but the -verse part has some nice additional connotations from Multiverse/Metaverse as well and there is now definitely a social aspect to it implied

@liaizon @manton Thanks, I guess meta was already taken 😀

@RianVDM Markdown links do work. I use them in my posts and Micro.blog translates them to Bluesky inline links. For example this recent post: bsky.app/profile/m…

@jsonbecker I’m not sure yet. Bluesky has some technical bits to work out before that’s possible, and then I’ll evaluate it.