Ah, but if there's more than one group of them, they *do* care about decentralization. We only need to avoid the Leviathan
Bluesky is Ethereum. Nothing wrong with that, if it's what you want
Nostr is a decentralized protocol full of people who care about decentralization. I don't have to agree with or honestly even respect anyone here and it will keep working just fine.
Isn't that beautiful?
There's hidden value in contrarianism. On occasion you'll go to tell someone exactly how mistaken their idea is, and in the process realize it isn't
nostr:note1avquh46yl57e55v4yqydhmzzwem495xjc8eszz2dry5dkgl0t6esr3wytc
LNURL is unnecessary and centralized
No, that's too soft. Any time there is VC involved, the intent will always be to deceive others
There is no path from where they are to where they claim to want to be without starting over. It's a new Twitter, and that's okay
There's nothing wrong with Bluesky. There isn't even anything wrong with deception. It's just not for me
I use the camera button all the time, but it's ridiculous to make it a premium hardware feature. Holding down the screenshot combination could do the same thing.
Getting rid of Broadcom is 🔥
This is I distinguishable from sci-fi
And if you wanted to, you could continuously rotate the key in order to limit the number of events that would be deleted. I have a PR open
I'd like to see subkeys. Start a new account, have your identity create an attestation for it... that's it. If it gets pwned you can make an event disavowing that key and deleting the events created by it, then make a new one and move on
Until then we should let fiatjaf's assertion that ATproto isn't "real" stand. It's currently aspirational, and there is no clear way to resolve fundamental deficiencies
First let's establish that bsky.app is not decentralized. They hold your keys and your data. If they disagree (morally or legally) with what you say, you have no recourse. Since they hold your keys, they can rewrite your history however they wish and it will be authoritative.
Your argument is really that ATproto is decentralized. First, I would argue that it's federated, as users have a "home" PDS. This is different than nostr, where you can spray events across every relay, or store them in a file, or send them to a friend over BLE, and they are *equally authoritative*.
Second, these ATproto apps aren't actually using ATproto: they're connecting to a Bluesky API. Perhaps they use a serialization format from ATproto, but they're simply asking nicely for AppView to take actions.
Third, it doesn't matter what ATproto is capable of, as people are there for bsky.app. Important features like account management, message deletion, and content filtering are done inside bsky and not using ATproto.
So, as fiatjaf points out, when bsky decides that doing everything in a truly decentralized manner is too difficult and sunsets ATproto, no one using the service will even be bothered.
Just like XMPP
It is in New York. You can buy something with Bitcoin, and accept Bitcoin as payment, but you can't facilitate the exchange of Bitcoin into something else on behalf of someone without a license:
200.3 License.
(a) License required.
No person shall, without a license obtained from the superintendent as provided in this Part, engage in any virtual currency business activity. Licensees are not authorized to exercise fiduciary powers, as defined under section 100 of the Banking Law.
(b) Unlicensed agents prohibited.
Each licensee is prohibited from conducting any virtual currency business activity through an agent or agency arrangement when the agent is not a licensee.
(c) Exemption from licensing requirements.
The following persons are exempt from the licensing requirements otherwise applicable under this Part:
(1) persons that are chartered under the New York Banking Law and are approved by the superintendent to engage in virtual currency business activity; and
(2) merchants and consumers that utilize virtual currency solely for the purchase or sale of goods or services or for investment purposes.
23 CRR-NY 200.3
Current through June 30, 2022
Vibe coding has made us all product managers. How's that going?