bluesky

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bluesky is a project proposed by Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO, to “develop an open and decentralized standard for social media – The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard.”.

IndieWeb Examples

• Aaron Parecki uses his short domain aaronpk.com as his bluesky handle since 2023-03-06, and has been syndicating his posts to bluesky since 2023-03-06
• Ryan Barrett has a profile: https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.listRecords?user=snarfed.bsky.social&collection=app.bsky.actor.profile , posts https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.listRecords?user=snarfed.bsky.social&collection=app.bsky.feed.post

IndieWeb Features

• personal domain as identity: https://aaronparecki.com/2023/03/06/18/domains
  • "I'm glad to see that BlueSky supports custom domains! I have zero interest in sitting on a username in the bluesky namespace. Setting it up was roughly the same as pointing your own domain to a hosting provider, and a lot easier than Mastodon/ActivityPub!" @Aaron Parecki March 6, 2023

IndieWeb Requests

Requests to add support for building blocks to make the service more IndieWeb friendly:

• IndieAuth: Support signing-in with IndieAuth: #646 Add support for authentication with IndieAuth

Announcement

2019:

• tweet thread announcing the project https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106
  • "Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵" @jack December 11, 2019

Report

2021:

• announcement of their report into “relevant work” https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1352302818418446337
  • "One of the goals when we announced bluesky was to develop a grounded understanding of relevant work that many talented people in the decentralization community have been doing. Today, we want to share an update on this." @bluesky January 21, 2021
• the report itself https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/twitter.modular.im/981b258141aa0b197804127cd2f7d298757bad20

Organization

2021:

• https://twitter.com/jack/status/1427315839666118662
  • "Jay will be leading @bluesky!
    
    Another step towards decentralizing Twitter and social media.
    
    Now we can move much faster, and through code." @jack August 16, 2021

Code

2022:

• "Twitter’s decentralized, open-source offshoot just released its first code" - The Verge

AT Protocol

2022:

• https://atproto.com/

Criticism

Handwavy

• https://twitter.com/hallam/status/1536338344665292803
  • "It is worth noting that this is the second hand wavy proposal Dorsey has come up with in the space of 12 months. BlueSky promised much the same.
    
    The Stolen Valor of calling it ‘Web/X’ should be a warning as should the fact that CryptoPonzi land is sinking today as Celsius rugs." @hallam June 13, 2022

Twitter controlled

• Criticism & thread: https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1204791506143457281
  • "Jack is many things, but an idiot he is not. He's whip smart. He knows we exist, he literally follows us.
    
    This is not an announcement of reinventing the wheel. This is announcing the building of a protocol that Twitter gets to control, like Google controls Android." @joinmastodon December 11, 2019

See Also

• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/twitter-and-interoperability-some-thoughts-peanut-gallery
• https://blueskyweb.org/
• https://bluesky-community.net/
• Kevin Marks was talking indieweb standards at the bluesky roundtable on interoperable formats https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1vAxRkVrMPzKl