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by KVFinn 1306 days ago
Well any particular Mastodon server can end up ruined or with ads. Or shutdown.

Reminds me of the early days of email when people used their local ISP hosts for their personal email addresses. So every time you moved or whatever your email address changed.

Mastodon at least opens up space for experiments. Lots of interesting possibilities.
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anonporridge 1306 days ago
Apparently this is the key difference they're working on for Bluesky. Trying to make accounts truly portable between federated servers.
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davoneus 1306 days ago
IMHO, Bluesky is nothing more than Dorsey's attempt to clone what Matrix was set out to do. And truthfully, Matrix already has already achieved a great deal; namely passing the 60 million user mark back in June of 2022, 70 million by October. Some major names have adopted it as well, including Mozilla, KDE and several organizations in the German and French governments, including a large German Healthcare org.

Matrix's code is independently audited, and they just completed the 2nd of those earlier this year. They did have some Cryptographic issue several months ago, but it was fixed quickly, and was on an old code base. The replacement is apparently close to completion, at which point that system will be submitted for an independent cryptographic audit.

I will admit that BlueSky does seem to incorporate the recently announced decentralized identifier (DID) spec from the W3C. The DID Method specs are still a hot mess, and there's no guarantee that the W3C is even capable of navigating that corporate 'I was here first' minefield. But I still have to tip my hat to BlueSky for doing it though. Given identity is so fundamental to these types of things, I suspect it'll be a damn mess incorporating it into existing protocols.

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noasaservice 1306 days ago
> Well any particular Mastodon server can end up ruined or with ads.

Too true. And in cases like that, I have already blocked bitcoinhackers.org .

And it's trivial to block individuals OR whole servers from your account. And server admins can block as well to the whole server.

So, sure, go ahead and make a spam-stodon. You'll be defederated within a week.

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