Yoodle 🇨🇦

Is the problem with #bluesky the AT protocol itself, or just how the developers over at Bluesky implement it? In theory could it be possible to make the AT protocol truly decentralized, the same way the #activitypub protocol is, or is that a lost cause? #askfedi

(Don’t worry, I’m not thinking of joining Bluesky or anything, I’m jut curious to hear people’s thoughts on this)

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Show threadJared White (ResistanceNet ✊)9h ago
@chimpchomp My understanding is that the protocol favors a small numbers of well-resourced service providers which can host "the whole network" as much as possible. Those are very different incentives from ActivityPub which lets you participate in the network while hosting very little of it (aka many tiny nodes).
Show threadYoodle 🇨🇦6h ago
@jaredwhite that makes sense. Its decentralized in principle, but in practice the incentives do not favour decentralization
Show threadDrew Scott Daniels9h ago
@chimpchomp mcc has done a lot of writing and boosting about it. I understand that it is decentralized, but at a heavy infrastructure cost to handle a larger number of messages than you’d get in most ActivityPub implementations.
Show threadYoodle 🇨🇦6h ago
@drewdaniels that makes sense. I guess it would be difficult to host your own, single user instance like you can with ActivityPub
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@chimpchomp

AT Protocol is different from ActivityPub and is very expensive to widely decentralize, which is why it has not done so in any statistically meaningful way. See this thread.

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116122817979484928