Seems like it’s for velocity and monetization. ActivityPub is already a published standard) and going to be more resistant to features that involve monetization given its origins. BlueSky could just start from scratch with AT and build what they in wanted and could iterate through updates without as much or any debate. That’s just my impression though, I’m not an expert into the state of either proto.

I agree that the bridge has too much friction to truly reach mass adoption. I’d be really happy if the two protocols could just interoperate transparently.

Ad revenue while it does convert free-service users to dollars isn’t the only means of commercialization (traditional business subscriber models for one) and as long as any financial incentives are there (not just ad-related), there will be spam of all kinds. Any general purpose medium will be come subject to this, it’s inevitable.

To the large point, a very very small amount of users have the means, capability or desire to host their own networks and services. Raising the technical bar means lowering the audience size. Even then, you’ll still find bad actors and people you don’t agree with.

I’m old enough to have had one and a Tripod and Prodigy page for that matter. I still don’t think the analogy holds up at all. Geocities was a single centralized commercial entity even. People contributed the content and they hosted it, this is still to this very day what traditional web hosting is. What I guess you want is more authentic, personal content?

If AI content is a chief concern, what would be the mechanism to stop the flow of it that couldn’t be applied (at a technical level) to the internet as it exists today? Or what human-driven policies could be made and policed better on a new network that nobody truly owns? (hint: this is already the internet)

Why would you want to replace the internet at a technical level, which is what the post appears to be focused on?

There’s plenty of arguments to burn-it-down at a social level, but building a second technical implementation doesn’t get you around those. Having individuals own more of the core doesn’t do much when the network level itself is largely neutral to the content that passes through it.

Also the core of the internet is built around big, fat pipes. Those are beyond the means of most hobbiest folks running their own equipment. Without those pipes, traffic will reach bottlenecks easily and usability will suffer.

• I just need a good 7 hours of sleep at least. You can’t cheat sleep duration. Eventually, you’ll need to catch up if you aren’t getting enough and it’ll compound the bad feeling.
• I fall asleep faster if I’ve had a drink, but not necessarily better. I might wake up in the middle of the night if I do.
• Pattern is important. If you usually wake up at 9 or 10am and want to wake up at 5 or 6am instead, you’ll probably have some meh feeling regardless, but the more you do it, the better it gets. Maybe consider moving your normal wake up time closer to the earliest times you want to wake up.

It’s unlikely to find one in this incarnation. It has too many limitations in its current form. Apple knew this when it was releasing it but they had sunk so much resource into it they had to get it out there, at least just to see what people might do. And imagine that, devs didn’t want to make apps for it because it’s yet another device with a new interface that would need specific attention to make a good app for and with a very small user-base, the return is not there. Chicken or the egg problem which has been very common in the VR/AR realm.

I’m sure Apple will take another crack at the form factor, but it might be another few years down the road. I might’ve even been interested in this model if it had any momentum at all, but it was mostly dead a month after launch.

Or… they’re all propaganda machines for someone.