Fucking Christ the @protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit I've ever looked at. It is complex solely for the sake of being complex and still suffers from *all* of the same problems as Mastodon.

Your server goes down? Sorry, all of your followers are lost. Account portability is no better than Mastodon. 'DIDs' serve literally no purpose. And none of the API code that Bluesky uses in their own app validates ANY of the crypto they're doing on the server. NONE OF IT.

@sam the wost part is that nobody that's flocking to bluesky is paying any attention to this or worse, just straight up doesn't care.

Also, it always seems that anyone who gets into crypto develops a complexity addiction that makes video game villains seem straightforward in their plotting. So, of course, bluesky was always going to have that problem of being needless complex behind the scenes. Plus, the slowdowns from resource hogging activity are likely going to be its downfall.