Mediated networks and power dynamics in ATproto
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from poVoq@slrpnk.net to fediverse@lemmy.ml on 27 Feb 2024 15:34
https://slrpnk.net/post/7112021
from poVoq@slrpnk.net to fediverse@lemmy.ml on 27 Feb 2024 15:34
https://slrpnk.net/post/7112021
Interesting thread that summarizes it well.
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Good read. BlueSky basically gives people the feeling that they’re in control, but actually is in control of everything. It’s like a house with no electricity.
I came away from reading over the AuthTransfer protocol and its handling of moderation/enabling users with a very major sense of, “We outsource almost everything!”
As L. Rhodes writes:
Indeed, or rather the difficult and legally tricky parts are off-loaded to 3rd parties but the profitable parts (algorithmic indexer and the app view with advertisements) are very much still in the hands of BlueSky the company.
Yeah, we’ll have to see if/when they fully enable third parties to run their own indexers and app views to see how committed they are to all this, and even then as the thread you linked indicates, there would remain many questionable architectural problems to AuthTransfer.
It’s smart to offload the legally tricky parts. Versus here those fall onto admins
In ATproto they fall on the admins as well, just not on the admins of the commercial company that runs Bluesky and profits from it.