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So… @jdp23@blahaj.zone drew my attention to this: https://berjon.com/ap-at/ and as you might imagine, I have some thoughts—though not really about running AP on top of ATProto. I'm more interested in the quote below, which is, I'd say, a pretty solid encapsulation of one of the sales pitches behind #Bluesky. Specifically, it posits an inherent conflict between social media users and server admins, and posits ATProto as a way of shifting power toward users. The reality is more complicated than that, IMO.
I came away from reading over the AuthTransfer protocol and its handling of moderation/enabling users with a very major sense of, “We outsource almost everything!”
Indeed, or rather the difficult and legally tricky parts are off-loaded to 3rd parties but the profitable parts (algorithmic indexer and the app view with advertisements) are very much still in the hands of BlueSky the company.
[…] but the profitable parts (algorithmic indexer and the app view with advertisements) are very much still in the hands of BlueSky the company.
Yeah, we’ll have to see if/when they fully enable third parties to run their own indexers and app views to see how committed they are to all this, and even then as the thread you linked indicates, there would remain many questionable architectural problems to AuthTransfer.
Indeed, or rather the difficult and legally tricky parts are off-loaded to 3rd parties but the profitable parts (algorithmic indexer and the app view with advertisements) are very much still in the hands of BlueSky the company.
It’s smart to offload the legally tricky parts. Versus here those fall onto admins
In ATproto they fall on the admins as well, just not on the admins of the commercial company that runs Bluesky and profits from it.
Yeah, we’ll have to see if/when they fully enable third parties to run their own indexers and app views to see how committed they are to all this, and even then as the thread you linked indicates, there would remain many questionable architectural problems to AuthTransfer.