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Mediated networks and power dynamics in ATproto (merveilles.town)
submitted 8 months ago by poVoq@slrpnk.net to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Interesting thread that summarizes it well.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I came away from reading over the AuthTransfer protocol and its handling of moderation/enabling users with a very major sense of, “We outsource almost everything!”

Indeed, or rather the difficult and legally tricky parts are off-loaded to 3rd parties but the profitable parts (algorithmic indexer and the app view with advertisements) are very much still in the hands of BlueSky the company.

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

[...] but the profitable parts (algorithmic indexer and the app view with advertisements) are very much still in the hands of BlueSky the company.

Yeah, we'll have to see if/when they fully enable third parties to run their own indexers and app views to see how committed they are to all this, and even then as the thread you linked indicates, there would remain many questionable architectural problems to AuthTransfer.

[–] dameoutlaw@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s smart to offload the legally tricky parts. Versus here those fall onto admins

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

In ATproto they fall on the admins as well, just not on the admins of the commercial company that runs Bluesky and profits from it.