Anthony DeRosaApr 26, 2023
It's legitimately funny that Elon's big-brain plan was to boost the worst content on this website from a small number of people willing to pay to do so.
Show threadJason B 🧙‍♂️Apr 26, 2023

@anthony Funnier that people are looking at #bluesky to be better than Mastodon. One day #bluesky will be sold to the du jour billionaire who will do the same that Elon did to Twitter.

And Mastodon will probably still be here.

#noblueskymono

Show threadNaim A.
@jkb @anthony but there’s nothing stopping the people from running new atproto instances while retaining their identities and content (which isn’t currently possible in mastodon), that’s what makes in more interesting in my eyes.
Apr 26, 2023 at 5:57pmWeb
Show threadJason B 🧙‍♂️Apr 26, 2023
@naim I need more info on retaining identifies? I'll check out atpronto.
Show threadNaim A.Apr 26, 2023

@jkb you can read about it here: https://atproto.com/docs

In short, a user has a crypto based “decentralized identity” which owns the user’s content in the form of a repository (like a simplified version of git). The user’s handle is a domain or subdomain that points to the user’s did (using a dns txt record). The “did” is resolved to a “did document” which contains the user’s server address and public keys.
All posts/commits are signed by the user’s keys.

Docs | AT Protocol