His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.
I don’t use Mastadon cause I don’t care for micro-blogging, but nevertheless, I like this.
I do wonder what prevents BlueSky from going the way Twitter did, though.
It’s open-source and has a public protocol.
You still have to go through the central hub. You can’t spin up your own, wholly independent Bluesky. You can only make your own node.
Yes, it’s not a full web3 app, but I like that these apps are heading in the right direction.
However it’s better than Twitter/Instagram. I can control my feed!
Until they build “The Algorithm” to “help you” find what
youthey want you to see or not.Feeds offer algorithm transparency and you can use alternative frontends. ATProto can’t suddenly be turned to private and disable third party access, it is intrinsically public.
It doesn’t have to be app-based, simply account based. Then the third party app doesn’t mean anything.