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So, there's two things: AT, and BlueSky. BlueSky feels like a centralized platform, which is (IMHO) important for user experience. Especially as a new user. But it's got the underlying tech of a distributed one, which means cool things. For example, I can run my own "algorithms" (in the sense that lay people talk about "the twitter algorithm" or "the facebook algorithm") or use ones that others have made, easily. There's a lot of interesting things technical users can do, and it's designed in such a way that non-technical users can take advantage of those things. As a practical example of this, someone I follow posted a link to various algorithms they like: https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3kkre625bse23 To use this, I just click through, and then "pin to home." it becomes a regular tab that I can view my feed through, just like the default ones. The "Quiet posters" algorithm here is one I'm actually interested in: I have often said one issue with the default algorithm is that I feel like I miss people who aren't actively posting when I happen to actively load up BlueSky. Now I can just check in on this feed and see those posts! What's going on here is very technically interesting, but as a user, I don't need to worry about any of that. AT is what enables this, but is also broader than "short text posts." I am interested by future possibilities for AT, but that's more of a vision than something concrete today. |