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#Österreich hat die #Solarförderung im zweiten Call deutlich aufgestockt. Statt geplanter 12 Millionen Euro wurden fast 50 Millionen Euro bereitgestellt.
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ok. so would the closest to this be getting apps to do the bridging?
of course I used to ask both threads and bluesky to do this, until my Instagram account got suspended. they never told me why but I assume they considered me spam. bluesky marks me as spam sometimes.
@evan you're making a category error, Evan.
People who aren't us don't give even the tiniest shits about which protocols they're using. 5G phones happily talk to 2G phones over SS7, and the only thing anyone knows about "5G" is that it's "fast" – and they don't even know what that means.
You just said approx. "that doesn't make any sense; it's like saying that you want NG-RAN and SS7 to be mutually intelligible" and people will care about as much as someone who literally says that.
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but that assumes there won't be any appreciable experiential diff. at this point, I think there will be. I don't expect anything like fully independent news or government servers on AT.
see @mondoweiss trying to use AT and consider pressure from Israel on most relays. their ability to get a critical story to go viral would be crushed.
arguing over protocols should be focused on why we care about decentralization. which model will be most likely to get us the future we want.
@evan (i.e. not at all)
It makes plenty sense to make BlueSky and Mastodon interoperable, even if it involves protocol-level translation. Doing so is, frankly, easy, and much easier than the very common approach of translating between Spanish and Chinese (which is what we normally do to communicate instead of inventing a Spanish/Chinese pidgin, which is also a thing humans do!).
@blaine Webfinger isn't part of ActivityPub, it's true. It is one of the key technologies that we use as part of the stack, though, which is why we have a whole Report about WF + AP.
I don't see any reason why you couldn't add someone's BlueSky account to a Webfinger descriptor. It would be extremely useful for lookup! Do you know if any work has been done on a link-rel for BlueSky addresses?
so don't we have to propose visions and see which ones make the most sense, are most popular, are compatible?
what's special about social media is the boost. virality. not community or the public square. making it decentralized without algos or ads puts the people fully in control. collectively we can determine what info, ideas and art gets the most attention. I think that's the revolution @rabble talks about. I call it #DemocracyOfReach.
which protocol makes that most likely?
@evan so was I. 😅 I don't do standards stuff anymore because I can't make "technologist horses" drink the "social purpose of technology" water.
(to be fair, I feel SO HAPPY at my job because my coworkers are great at communicating with the right people (most of whom aren't "standards-level" technologists) about these things)
but don't we have other more closed systems that allow us to choose community. the web provides free speech to everyone. revolutionary. the social web adds an attention layer to that where everyone gets a say. another revolution.
we need other stuff also but this potential is something I don't want to squander, esp when I don't think it means being unable to do the other stuff also.
I go back to the Iraq War and knowing elite info control led to that disaster.
too technical for me.
all I know is I can boost a really important story I find and it can go viral and change the narrative about an important issue. even if very wealthy/powerful don't want it to.
or at least that would be possible if everybody was here. and even moreso if fedi was a more important part of how we all handled news instead of a few dominant outlets with owners with merger and political concerns.
@evan @blaine @rabble that's more a matter of how current software like Mastodon is built to disregard the entire web and only consider a tiny fraction of it.
i can "boost" something on my website by linking to it. i can even embed a preview if i feel like it. software can be written to make this one button press just like on Mastodon if we wished.
so just use email. /snark
sorry I'm trying to spark the deep conversation about why we should care about social media decentralization. what does it provide us? what do we imagine it could provide us? is there a difference between social networking and social media?
but I've made my case.
@timbray @blaine @evan just use email /srs
even so, email's problems these days are that power has concentrated in the hands of a few providers who make it hard for anyone new to get started because of all the antispam policies and opaque enforcement of such. but assuming you have deliverability, email works for pretty much anything, to varying degrees of automation.
The one thing is that atproto as designed is effectively centrally managed and top down.
For fun, we can think about three different protocols in the way that they function. ActivityPub, atproto, and nostr.
Nostr would be the most decentralized and most individualist. You don't even pick a single server, you pick on number of different relays which will accept your messages and provide messages to you. It really doesn't matter if in the end which individual relays you pick because in practice it's just a ledger with all the messages that it received, and the protocol itself handles identity through your secret key. If the relay that you were using goes down, your user experience doesn't even notice because there's probably 10 others.
ATproto would be the least decentralized and most collective. It is hypothetically possible to host your own instance, but in practice user management and a lot of other stuff is Central to the main Bluesky organization. Getting banned or getting blocked or whatever, it's not that different from Facebook in that regard. If the main Bluesky service goes down, it will effectively mean the end of bluesky.
ActivityPub would be somewhere in between. You have individual servers that people will pick one or multiple, there is a centralized point where your identity lives, and each server has its own moderation policies and administrator team. If one server goes down, everyone on that server loses access to the fediverse on that server and they also lose their identity from that server, but they can very easily go somewhere else. If mastodon.social goes down, a lot of accounts will become inaccessible but the broader fediverse will be unaffected.
Bridges are obviously possible between the three because we see it, but I tend to think that the three are mutually exclusive and mutually incompatible in their aims and technical details such that integrating any two immediately means giving up some of what that protocol is trying to do.
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The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profitMastodon hosted on mastodon.social
another question related to the why discussion.
is this a public medium like blogging with boosts or is the goal more private, your chosen community and conversations? the former I call social media vs the latter being social networking. old school twitter vs the friends, family and groups on Facebook.
@mackuba @evan @blaine it's all about context. context is everything. unfortunately, context collapse is the norm.
i think it should be apparent that someone who primarily or exclusively posts publicly is not going to have their needs align broadly with someone who primarily or exclusively posts privately.
the goal is whatever people want it to be. both are possible. practically speaking, i do not want "fully public" and "300 characters", so atp/bsky is a complete non-starter for me.
@blaine The first question asked by the poll is "Would you like to see full default interoperability between #ATproto and #ActivityPub without a bridge?"
The second question is "what's preventing this".
but I also care what either of them becoming dominant might mean for the larger culture. I don't see the media decentralization we need (obvious under the Trump admin) as likely if AT "wins". but maybe I'm wrong. but unless we have a goal like that and not just decentralization, I don't know why the argument matters except for technologists. it has to something concrete like that. and things like enabling community is fine but that's available in other ways etc.
@chris @blaine it's funny that you say "without bridges" and "however that may happen" in the same breath. If we don't care how it happens, why rule out one particularly powerful technique for interoperability?
BridgyFed works GREAT. It's fucking amazing. Is there room for improvement? Absolutely. But it's a really good service.
it is amazing. I guess my problem is that it's opt in.
*ducks*
and the burden is on two amazing dudes to pay for and manage it (hopefully with all our donations).
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Appreciate all the kind words in the thread! That said, I still strongly believe opt-in is a feature, not a bug. The right solution isn't to force people onto networks they don't want to be a part of; it's to clean up the rough edges of unbridged interactions and content so it makes less of a difference.
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I understand the instinct of "make these work together", but there are technical and cultural differences that make it more than just two standards talking to each other. A couple of simple examples are "I don't want to be in a public, auditable firehose" or "I had a bad experience there, I don't trust them with my safety."
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I understand if you don't want to have the conversation but these are public systems like blogging with your email address available, we just don't think of them like that. it's old school twitter, not even your network of friends and family on facebook. not having algos/ads doesn't mean everything isn't boostable to the world by default. maybe people want to use something designed to be inherently private, but that's not fedi etc. IMHO
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I agree with you there! But often it's not about *how* public things are, it's more about *where* they're public. In other words, many users I've spoken to who are either not bridged or are straight-up anti-bridge have chosen that route because they don't (yet) trust the entities on the other side to have that much ownership over their data. There's also a cohort who don't want to have to depend on *us* to bridge them either.
It's a lot more complex!
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they're public on the internet! screenshots?
I think the complexity is mostly about having so few people here and thinking it will stay that way. that being here is safety through obscurity. that a fedi server is a community instead of much more a portal to a possibly universal social media network. they built and maintained this place (huge kudos!) to get away, but actually made the best network not to.
they need a fork that's default opt in.
same with the moderation.
preventing people from being able to tag you with a slur etc will lead to growth, but preventing people from being able to state their unpopular opinion to no one in particular isolates us. I don't think people choose these approaches to keep us small, they just don't want to stumble on stuff that will upset them. they want this place cozy.
but we see junk browsing the web. it's essential to culture/civics.
sorry. /rant
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Huge difference between screenshotting vs always being a part of another network and another organization's infrastructure by default.
To be clear, I don't agree with Fediverse platforms depending on a blocklists, I much prefer approve-lists, but I don't think that's a popular opinion either.
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the bots and trolls will go where they can have the most impact. We have to prepare and ensure the Fedi can deal with them, from any source, regardless of what we do with Bluesky. I just see Bluesky as another server. Like Threads. People can choose to federate to Threads, or not. Same should be true of Bluesky.
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How nice for you. Wish I could say the same.
And as for bots
There are a lot of application domains where multiple competing protocols prevent growth of the industry as a whole. I'd pick Internet of Things and instant messaging as two good examples.
There are others where a single protocol has become the overwhelming default, and agreeing on that protocol lets us move up the stack and produce incredible value for everyone. HTTP and SMTP are two good examples.
I have some rough guesses.
One is some kind of threshold value in active protocols. I think Randall's instinct is correct: having a dozen or more active protocols in an application area makes it really hard to converge.
@trwnh @julian "The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems."
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@julian I don't know if there is a good book about how SMTP won, by the way. It would be a great read. In hindsight, it seems inevitable, but in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was far from a sure thing. There were dozens of commercial network email protocols already in use, and a few interoperation standards, like X.400.
@julian I think there's something to Richard Gabriel's famous observation that "Worse is better". SMTP is pretty damned simple.
"what's preventing this?"
atproto is designed in a way hostile to integration with external systems. The point of atproto is "a big central server collects literally all the information and then you query that server for whatever you want"*. For it to talk to a decentralized system efficiently you almost have to change it into something else
* It's actually a little less convenient than this, but space
purely personally, I don’t see significant value from this.
More people to follow? Don’t care, I don’t follow everyone on mastodon, I’m already missing out gems.
More people follow me? I don’t care, my account isn’t used to drive any economical value.
I can see there being frustrations as protocols fail to work with each other. Or as funded tries to absorb ‘free’.
Or culture shifting towards more hustle due to the nature of ATp being more about money generation.
to me, the point of social media is virality. the boosts. having the best info, ideas and art spread most widely. it's why cities generally improved the human experience. for that, I want everyone involved.
I don’t think a bridge is necessary for that though. As it’s not that APp is exclusionary from a technical standpoint (although it is socially).
My worry is that a bridge will not result in best info and ideas. Instead it will homogenize ideas around a local peak of ‘best’.
With separation we have two local peaks of best and sometimes one side is better, sometimes the other. But we can learn from each other.
What’s preventing this: this has many answers, but one way this could be done is by doing exactly what Threads has been doing, by just implementing ActivityPub.
Since Bluesky has a de-facto centralised component bsky.app that does interoperability between their “instances” or how do they call it. That centralised component can also do transparent ActivityPub bridging.
yea IDK
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That doesn't make any sense; it's like saying that you want Chinese and Spanish to be mutually intelligible. You could try to combine the two languages into one mixed thing, but that resulting language would be neither Chinese nor Spanish.
a mastodon instance doing translation from ATProto to AP would be like it running both protocols (unless im misunderstanding), given how insanely expensive it is to run a blusky instance (perhaps why we got only one instance of it) that is a suicide move by Mastodon to do it (I took mastodon and blusky here as examples)
The shared heap is pretty large and is growing and AP prides itself in the ability for it to be deployed on stuff like a raspberry pi
So my vote will be no
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