> We finally got the future where people will write sad breakup country songs about their tractor leaving them instead of sad breakup country songs about their wife leaving them.
There have been some people trying to think about DID migration, but also core protocol designers saying that's problematic and probably not going to happen. We'll see, Bsky CTO has said real politik has its place, so rally anything can be on the table if you can convince the majority. I think we could have something equivalent to a "hard fork" should the need arise
It's very much a Not Invented Here of Mastodon and the Fediverse.
Bluesky is a good user experience insofar as it's centralised.
Mastodon is a bad user experience insofar as you're forced to be aware of the decentralisation.
If you want successful decentralisation, Mastodon has that out of the box. You can stand up a Mastodon, Akkoma, GotoSocial etc on a $5/mo VM and you're an equal participant immediately. Or you can join someone else's server.
ActivityPub is underspecified and Mastodon just ignored a lot of it and so the actual protocol is an unholy mishmash of the two. It mostly works though, by the process of people beating on it until it works.
With Bluesky, you have a centralised service and a lot of people saying "decentralised!"
AT Proto is theoretically decentralised in the fabulous future and points of absolute and financial centralisation keep turning up.
I spend all day posting to both, fwiw. They each do a particular job. But the "decentralisation" in Bluesky is fake. Or at best, simply not feasiblly true.
Bluesky growth spurts are always when Musk or (less frequently) Zuckerberg step on their dicks again and more people come over from their services. In between are slow declines.
The relay is not that bad, the only really bad part is building an index, and most apps on the atmosphere have no need to index bluesky records, so the economics for them look very different.
The work towards permissioned data and group-shared data will make it so apps can choose their own levels of "decentralization" of "federation" on atproto primitives. For example, two diametric options
1. An app that is not open source code, but still does all the same atproto credible exit stuff. Naturally leans into winner-take-all
2. An app that is tied to community, think something like Discord, where most servers don't care about what other servers are doing. Each community could run their own version and only care about their data. This is raspberry pi hostable.
1. Some people call Openclaw an RCE in a tin: "<RCE in a tin>, operator pulls pin, tin goes boom"
2. Some have a very different framing: "There's no such thing as the RCE in a tin, it's all fake news, therefore it couldn't go boom"
Well either way people need to be more responsible, both sides agree to that much. But the safety implications of boom vs not boom might be a problem for a while.
The really uncomfortable position is : "This thing has real but unreliable capabilities, which is exactly the most dangerous configuration."
On the upside, once you've Named The Problem, there's several ways forward from there, at least.
Yeah, I get it, that's plausibly outside your personal Overton window; we all come at this from different angles. I take it you reject the operator's confession out of hand then?
That said, the theory you're putting forward today seems to be a bit flimsy and convoluted for a mere $209 in tokens. Were they ever even spent? I don't think it should survive Occam's Razor.
If the meme-coin you mentioned enters the timeline before 2026-Feb-08, plausibly that resurrects the theory.
But who knows, I'm not the crypto-hunter. Maybe you've seen crazier stuff!
author here - there's hands on and there's hands on, a Waymo operator is mostly getting the robot out of stuff beyond its if-then loop but also they are in any reasonable sense the human operator.
Like, I'm sure our bro automated as much as possible that wasn't more directly relevant to the crypto bit.
The original PR is innocuous at a glance, but then an innocuous PR is how Jia Tan started.
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> We finally got the future where people will write sad breakup country songs about their tractor leaving them instead of sad breakup country songs about their wife leaving them.
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