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Interesting post about BlueSky’s underlying federated protocol (AT Protocol)
Interesting post about BlueSky’s underlying federated protocol (AT Protocol)
AT seems like pretend decentralization. theyve just hidden the important centralized layers in services controlled by ‘the big guys’ because ‘traffic volume’…
so its still going to be a bunch of endpoints(instances) required to talk to these giant relays if you want any users to see any content whatsoever.
no thanks. the more i read, the more this is an over-engineered nightmare not reallly offering any benefit for those nightmares.
barrier to instance entry is still deep, and reliant on a giant ex-twitter corporation to exist.