On-ears this morning, on the road:
What does that mean, exactly, and why does it matter? Bluesky founder and CEO Jay Graber says social media is stagnating because “we're in this trap where users are locked in and developers are locked out.” It’s time to open things up again, she states, like in the innovative early days of the internet.
https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/jay-graber
The transcript is okay'ish, but it's still worth a listen. Generally, repeatedly, what I really, fully, totally admire about the atproto / Bluesky approach is their take on user data and identity even as a mere mortal. Like: Even without being required to "run infrastructure" of your own, be able to tie all you have to your own domain name, your own online identity and be able to take, handle, move that as you see fit. Too, in example, the option to use a custom domain name even on infrastructure operated by others has been around for ages in Tumblr and for quite a while in micro.blog, and whyever this hasn't been a first-class baked-in feature with every other federated network and most specifically "newer" implementations and standards such as ActivityPub or Mastodon is something I have a hard time wrapping my head around.