Twitter spinoff Bluesky announced creation of new distributed messaging AT Protocol - Jack's distributed Twitter dream continues to slowly sputter to life, aims to fix issues with Fediverse such as being tied to instances

[Borax Bozo]

The AT Protocol

blueskyweb.xyz

The AT Protocol

atproto.com

This private information is unavailable to guests due to policies enforced by third-parties.

Twitter spinoff and startup Bluesky is continuing development on its alternative vision of distributed public messaging. It recently released info about the AT Protocol, its idea for an underlying structure for federated user content publishing. It's an alternative to the existing Fediverse/Mastodon style protocol

There's a lot of detail available for devs at https://atproto.com/docs but the most interesting thing is probably their attempt to support user ID transferability.

 

[Coolio55]

What?! Was this before or after Musk?
Very strange considering that twitter's entire schtick was riddling their site full of ads and user hostile design and jannying it up.

Oh well, here's hoping that something cool happens.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Unfortunate that they're still hardcoding dependencies on email into their protocol though.

It's interesting, I guess, but it's still just "distributed Twitter" and replicates many of the issues that make Twitter strictly worse than a regular blogging platform - likes, reposts, follower counts, etc. At least they don't seem to have kept the character limit.

 

[⠠⠠⠅⠑⠋⠋⠁⠇⠎ ⠠⠠⠊⠎ ⠠⠠⠁ ⠠⠠⠋⠁⠛]

aims to fix issues with Fediverse such as being tied to instances

Wow, so it'll be like a less popular version of Secure Scuttlebutt? A bold move.

 

[Solid Hyrax]

Since Bluesky is still in beta and you must have an account to even view feeds through the main website. Since it's an open protocol there are ways to still view feeds even without an account: firesky can show you a stream feeds of everyone's posts on the site and even filter keywords & usernames. In addition, I found out recently that you can plop someone's userID in bsky.link and generate a link or even a whole feed of the user and get passed the login block.

cc: @Admiral Throbnelius (since you follow keffals on bluesky and maybe this is a way to archive them. Haven't tried myself yet)