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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

* also, the atproto appview is open source in theory but not in practice, cos if you want it to actually scale to the existing network you need a proprietary database

people on both bluesky and blacksky networks are gonna see a lot of weirdly broken shit

because federation is an inherently defective user experience if you're here to socialise and not because of an obsession with federated networks

mastodon users know this personally, and at least masto has existed long enough to patch up the worst problems. (w00t to that "more replies" functionality!)

loud decentralisation theatre with a fuckload of absolutely centralised points of control is also a tell of fashtech, in case you were wondering about bsky corp being literally coiners, rationalists and neoreactionaries

https://awful.systems/post/5833209