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| Bluesky’s AT Protocol as I Understand It | /:title/ | Why I think there's reasonable apprehension around the new social protocol | technology |
My attempt to explain AT Protocol to a 5y.o. — confirmed as “looks correct” by dan. 😅
Personal Data Servers (PDS) are for common folk. Very lightweight, easy to set up. You own your stuff.
The big-world central Bluesky app / aggregator is for those that has the resource to run them: infra, moderation, manpower.
Maybe think of how Google search can pull public info from different sites and you can interact with them...
At some point other big-world aggregators can pop up (Bing, DuckDuckGo?) and we would probably need them
Currently PDSes by themselves don’t give us a way to interact, we need such big-world aggregators for that
Hence, the difficulty of seeing this network as a decentralized platform
That said, what they mean by it “taking inspiration from The Web” — is how Big Tech (in terms of resources) has owned the decentralized design of the Web via consolidation of information and controlling how we interact
Now the question is: what have we learned from that kind of Web?