On boarding is too complicated for your average social user
https://atproto.com has more of the developer mindshare now
https://atproto.com has more of the developer mindshare now
tradeoffs are acceptable to help our social fabric to take a step in a better direction and away from corporate silos and the attention economy
Everyone who’s both email and Twitter already understands all the basic concepts.
User handles are unique in ATProto because of the domain, just like email. Not sure what the "except" part is about. Can you clarify? In ATProto, they are not "bare"
ActivityPub is the same, except they are tied to the server you join. In ATProto, they are decoupled from your data host so you can move your data and server without changing your handle. You can also change your handle without moving anything else, because handle points to a DID behind the scenes
How’s ATProto work for the 99.9% of people who don’t own domains?
For a concrete example, I tagged a Lemmy community in a Mastodon post today. Lemmy is Reddit-like and Mastodon is Twitter-like, but it displays reasonable on Lemmy using the first line of the post as a title and expanding to the attached image when clicked in the default Lemmy UI. I can also post a long-form article on Wordpress (with a plugin) and have it show up in Mastodon even though it has a short character limit by default.
Lexicon schema are not enforced, they are a tool for social coordination, and most implementations are very liberal in what they accept
https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/lexicon-guidance
> isTool: true; isRule: false; meaning: undefined
ActivityPub by contrast lacks such social coordination and many apps are reusing the same schema for very different concepts, leading to its own form of over-complexity
Generally the first point is server selection. That's too complicated for most users
People are capable of selecting phones, phone network providers, e-mail providers, Internet providers, but selecting a server for mastodon is too complicated?
Don't buy it
Not listening to users is when learning stops
You are making bad analogies, instead compare AP to other social media networks and what users expect when signing up
I don't. I make these analogies, because they show that almost everyone is able to deal with the complexity of selecting a service provider.
I acknowledge that it is not their expected sign up flow, though, because they you can only expect what you already know.
But for mastodon, even if it technically "doesn't matter" nobody stops there. You see things written like "The hardest part of getting started on Mastodon is the first step,"[1]
They talk about chosing a server based on region, language, topics of interest, or which ones your friends use. I've even some mention that your server choice can signal your political leanings.
I don't worry about any of those things when I choose an email provider or ISP.
[1] https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-pick-a-mastodon-server