Speaking of social media and feeds, a new site launched that’s honestly one of the more surreal things I’ve ever seen:
Bluesky is an opportunity to shake up the status quo. They have built scaffolding for a new kind of social web. One where we all have more say, choice and control. But it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app. We want to create an entire ecosystem of interconnected apps and different companies that have people’s interests at heart. Free Our Feeds will build a new, independent foundation to help make that happen.
Bluesky can do things that Mastodon can’t. I’ve been told their moderation tools are far superior for example, though that wouldn’t be hard. But still, the whole site feels like something a person knocked up with a genAI tool one afternoon. It has that… uncanny valley vibe that’s hard to describe.
Why is there no mention of ActivityPub, or Mastodon, at all? You know, the protocol that isn’t tied to one app? At best, this reads like not-invented-here syndrome. At worst, it’s obfuscation.