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507 sats \ 0 replies \ @melvincarvalho 18 Oct 2022
Work in progress, very complex, lots of reinvention
Hopefully will be some good bits that can be cherry picked from it in time
They would benefit from using nostr which already works and is growing, but they can do so in a few years time
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244 sats \ 3 replies \ @sommerfeld 18 Oct 2022
I couldn't find a FAQ but how does this innovate over the fediverse?
Also, I thought we reached a point where it was unanimous that federations and social networking do not mix well. Is there a novel approach here?
Personally I still think something stateless like nostr is the way to go but would be interested in being proven wrong.
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @go 19 Oct 2022
https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/10-18-2022-the-at-protocol gives a little something but not much
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7 sats \ 1 reply \ @mrbrownstone 19 Oct 2022
Why federations don't work?
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @sommerfeld 19 Oct 2022
They don't work for the specific task of social networks, not saying they are useless, I think Matrix is a great use case but that is for instant messaging.
Social networks need large well connected "networks" to scale. They need permanence, persistence and discoverability. Having 1000s of different home instances is very cool for decentralization but it hurts discoverability and thus normies don't use it.
If the ecosystem collapses on a few handful big instances, it just stops being decentralized so might as well give up on the federation concept.
As the network scales, so does the amount of content that needs to be hosted there. Who will be willing to host all of that in the future for free?
The fact of the matter is none of these fediverse type social networks did really take off. Maybe I will be wrong in the future but at least now that appears to be the case.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @shyfire 19 Oct 2022
Does it support AT Commands tho? 😋
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @derekross 19 Oct 2022
Only AT-AT.
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