Jan PenfratJul 12, 2023
It is frightening to see how #journalists (even those supposedly knowing about #media, like #MargaretSullivan @TheGuardian) realise how and why #Twitter failed them and us as a digital public space but entirely fail to draw any meaningful conclusions for themselves. Instead they willingly stumble into the next #platform dependency that will harm independent #journalism and degrade public discourse.
Show threadEdmund EdgarJul 13, 2023

@ilumium
In theory the Bluesky design is less platform-dependent than Mastodon, because in Mastodon your identity is controlled by your server admin and you need their permission to move it.

It's all just promises and design documents right now since there are no other servers so you could argue that the platform-independence will never actually happen, but using it doesn't show you're not thinking about the problem

Show threadscraper
@edmundedgar @ilumium On Mastodon you don't need any permission at all to move your account. There's a simple workflow for this. And the main flaw of bluesky's "distributed" protocol is that its (intentionally?) extremely bulky and user logon has to be routed over bluesky's servers. This is the opposite of distributed and shows only the data greed of bluesky.
Jul 13, 2023 at 2:48amWeb
Show threadEdmund EdgarJul 13, 2023
@scraper You do. It's automated, but the process is "ask your current server to forward your account to someone else". This will fail if the server is down/hacked/abandoned, or if the admin suspended your account, or if the admin manually intervened to stop you moving. @ilumium