i'm starting to be fascinated by Bluesky's AT Protocol. I really like its separation of handle, identity, data and service. also seems less weird to explain to non-tech people (what killed the fediverse as a serious twitter alternative imo) as services look like centralized apps from the outside, even when you can self host everything including your identity itself.

i do read the concerns about them blocking palestinian IPs. i need to read more about it, as I assume this only concerns PLC identities / bluesky hosted PDSes. it IS a weak point of the platform at the moment even if in theory their own protocol as it is implemented right now allows to bypass that

when the PLC directory will be handled by an independent org, more did:web usage in general, and more widespread self-hosted services for PDSes, i really see ATproto being the straight up better ActivityPub when it comes to changing the social media landscape

probably controversial to say this on here but hey, that's my opinion

I feel like electron created a terrible precedent for the reputation of web technology when it comes to optimization

i'm pretty sure the reason "chrome tab UI" is an issue is because of the heavy JS engine, uncompiled JS, CSS and HTML source code that takes more space than machine code

I struggle to see why by itself, DOM + CSS would be slow, heavy or inconvenient. it's actually quite convenient considering how standardized it is

like why is Qt + QML considered native but not a webview if you strip it of HTML and JS ?

even "traditional" GUI toolkits are just big graph + styling

was this concept ever explored ? or was the discussion somehow poisoned by the fact traditional web view GUIs (electron) bring the entire browser with them ?