Well, this is an unexpected curveball.
Jack Dorsey hopes that Bluesky will be “temporary”.
How likely is Bluesky to actually be “temporary”?
@atomicpoet @fediversenews ...this, to me, is the whole ballgame. Why, then, does Bluesky (purportedly) trump what Mastodon has done / is doing / will do?
@ChrisPirillo My suspicion is because ActivityPub is server-to-server, and subsists by writing to 1,000s of servers.
AT is more convoluted. It’s personal data to big graph server to Labeller / App View / Feed Gen.
Why?
Well, my suspicion is that Twitter wanted to avoid liability for all the crazy stuff being posted there.
Twitter didn’t want to be a publisher.
They wanted to be the Google of self-hosted social media posts.
@atomicpoet @ChrisPirillo Oh, that's interesting. Perhaps what they're doing here is building a hedge against the US Congress or courts detonating Section 230.