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Fucking Christ the @protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit I've ever looked at. It is complex solely for the sake of being complex and still suffers from *all* of the same problems as Mastodon.
Your server goes down? Sorry, all of your followers are lost. Account portability is no better than Mastodon. 'DIDs' serve literally no purpose. And none of the API code that Bluesky uses in their own app validates ANY of the crypto they're doing on the server. NONE OF IT.
@sam@urbanists.socialI think the fundamental reason why we keep seeing more and more bullshit protocols and projects pop up like this is one fundamental mindset: a refusal to attribute the problems of the modern internet solely to capitalism.
The fact is that our protocols we have today generally work pretty great. The choice of protocols hasn't made the internet what it is today. It's the fact that unrestrained, late-stage neoliberal capitalism is reaching its logical conclusion: corporate control of commons.
There's a fundamental lack of trust in people with these protocols. That's exactly it.
Crypto assumes that everyone is an attacker and that nobody can be trusted, and so we need 'proof' of your actions.
Bluesky assumes the same, that you should have to prove that each social media post is yours cryptographically.
And the fact is just that that's not necessary. Mastodon's system works while requiring trust, and it scales remarkably well in an anticapitalist way.
Obviously mastodon isn't perfect, I don't think it is. There's definitely a general 'NIMBY' vibe here of "this is how things are and we refuse to change", and we have work to do to fix that.
But I think what's key is to keep an anticapitalist mindset. We can make things easier for users without allowing in what makes social media so fucking awful: capitalism.