It’ll possibly be something built on the AT protocol. There’s likely a lot of people beavering away behind closed Doors to make “that but on AT”. TikTok and Instagram are the big targets but forums/Reddit have to be in someone’s sights.
Of course, I see all of them as a half-way house to the Fediverse. The cost of running relays is sufficiently high there may only ever be one or two for any service and down that road enshittification lies. If that happens, then we’ll see a lot more people jump ship again.
So AT, but not necessarily to Bluesky itself per se (or rather, not “just” to it), as opposed to ActivityPub?
I think if people writing open source software e.g. underpinning Mastodon would simply listen to potential users, then people would actually join it. Nobody likes to be ignored - e.g. celebrities who know that there are no guarantees that someone else won’t simply steal their name and impersonate them, which imho is a valid concern that they have. And ofc the onboarding experience leaves much to be desired, especially for people who haven’t created an account yet and just want to see an example of what it might look like if they did (which Bluesky does an EXCELLENT 👌 job at that!).
Here on Lemmy, that would mean defederating from troll instances like Hexbear - at least for the instances promoted to the “normie” crowd - and reducing the overall heavy tones of authoritian control. e.g. we have a modlog but no modmail, and the modlogs used to say more but now simply say “mod”, which let’s be honest, makes us Reddit 2.0, just now with slightly less spez, yet you know all those users banned from Reddit bc they were so toxic that even Reddit couldn’t handle them? Yeah, they came HERE - join us why don’t you?
Obviously you can/must spend tens of hours of your life blocking all of this if you don’t want it… oh and also a large portion of the software does not work, e.g. deleted posts don’t say “deleted post” so much as “internal server error, check back later”. (or instead of any of that, they could simply remain on Reddit? hence they do just that)
It’ll possibly be something built on the AT protocol. There’s likely a lot of people beavering away behind closed Doors to make “that but on AT”. TikTok and Instagram are the big targets but forums/Reddit have to be in someone’s sights.
Of course, I see all of them as a half-way house to the Fediverse. The cost of running relays is sufficiently high there may only ever be one or two for any service and down that road enshittification lies. If that happens, then we’ll see a lot more people jump ship again.
So AT, but not necessarily to Bluesky itself per se (or rather, not “just” to it), as opposed to ActivityPub?
I think if people writing open source software e.g. underpinning Mastodon would simply listen to potential users, then people would actually join it. Nobody likes to be ignored - e.g. celebrities who know that there are no guarantees that someone else won’t simply steal their name and impersonate them, which imho is a valid concern that they have. And ofc the onboarding experience leaves much to be desired, especially for people who haven’t created an account yet and just want to see an example of what it might look like if they did (which Bluesky does an EXCELLENT 👌 job at that!).
Here on Lemmy, that would mean defederating from troll instances like Hexbear - at least for the instances promoted to the “normie” crowd - and reducing the overall heavy tones of authoritian control. e.g. we have a modlog but no modmail, and the modlogs used to say more but now simply say “mod”, which let’s be honest, makes us Reddit 2.0, just now with slightly less spez, yet you know all those users banned from Reddit bc they were so toxic that even Reddit couldn’t handle them? Yeah, they came HERE - join us why don’t you?
Obviously you can/must spend tens of hours of your life blocking all of this if you don’t want it… oh and also a large portion of the software does not work, e.g. deleted posts don’t say “deleted post” so much as “internal server error, check back later”. (or instead of any of that, they could simply remain on Reddit? hence they do just that)