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- Architectural Differences: ActivityPub’s model did not align with Bluesky’s vision for scalability and flexibility.
- User Experience: Integrating with ActivityPub could have limited Bluesky’s control over its features and user experience.
- Technical Challenges: Compatibility with existing ActivityPub networks would require significant adjustments that might compromise Bluesky’s goals.
- Scalability: Designed to handle higher traffic and expand seamlessly.
- Modular Flexibility: Allows customization without being constrained by the limitations of ActivityPub.
- User Data Portability: Focuses on improving data interoperability between platforms.
I swear what Dylan has written here is on the minds of pretty much every expat in Japan.
Read: 📰 Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
Automation and distance working… the laboratory is Japan, believe me when I say I have seen the future.
Japan convenience store hires remote worker in Sweden for night shift - Nikkei Asia
“It was a skill more critical as the United States and the world confronted the coronavirus pandemic.” #page42 📖
Best thing about newish web browsers and smartphones: The ability to turn long articles and blog posts into a voiceover/podcast/audiobook on the spot.
Definitely helping me digest @cwebber@social.coop’s article How decentralized is Bluesky really? which you should definitely read/listen to.
💻️ Reading BlueskyがActivityPubを採用しなかった3つの理由 (Three reasons why Bluesky didn’t adopt ActivityPub)
This page discusses why Bluesky chose not to adopt ActivityPub, the open protocol used by Mastodon and others, and opted to make its own, ATProtocol.
AT Proto addresses these by improving:
🤔 The author equates ATProto to solving for “Big Fedi” while still maintaining the nimbleness within to handle “Small Fedi” ideals on a granular scale. This is as opposed to Mastodon’s catering to “Small Fedi,” only. Oh what are these anyway? It’s a concept that Evan Prodromou (@evan@cosocial.ca) outlined in his blog post here defining two schools of thought regarding social networks. It’s highly encouraged to read through that post and perhaps even drop him a line if you’re interested in these topics.
At some point I’ll give my thoughts and post them over on the main starrwulfe.xyz blog once I unpack them, and also how I’m doing this with some #indieweb secret sauce; stay tuned! 📺️
Great read from Ben Werdmuller: Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of [open] social media… werd.io/2024/blue…
📚 Finished reading: Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urba…
A great primer for anyone fascinated by how the Dutch went from almost losing the war with the automobile in the 60’s and 70’s to becoming the beacon for creating an entire country that is designed for humans first and cars last. It also details how these ideas are being exported to places around the world as more and more people seek to reclaim public spaces from cars.
Currently reading: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚
I’m actually 100/360 pages in. It’s a serious 🐰🕳️ of a page turner so far!
[Previously: 📚want to read: parable of the sower and also Previously.
Want to read: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚
Intrigued by how so many authors kinda predicted our current predicament uncannily. From The Washington Post via Apple News this morning:
A 1993 dystopian novel imagined the world in 2024. It’s eerily accurate. Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’ predicted devastating climate change, inequality, space travel and ‘Make America great again’
Finished reading: A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami 📚
…this was my first Murakami book and one of the first novels that I read cover-to-cover in its original Japanese back when I was still learning. I should also say I read the other books too (Pinball, Norwegian Wood) but those were the translated English ones…