I’m not answering that question. I’m answering whether this is the movement that dethrones it.

ls #HelloQuitMeta the Next Viral Movement?

Probably not.

Something eventually will be. Meta will not last forever.

This one? Nah, probably not. Meta is undoubtedly going to censor, suppress, hide, and deprioritize posts about this. But someday it will.

Yes, although the protocol is already open, which I think mitigates the risk slightly. Bluesky is also organized as a public benefit corp, which mitigates the risk almost not at all but is interesting. If Bluesky begins to go the way of Twitter, other corporations or entities can make interoperable replacements easily. That was not so for Twitter.

But in general, yes. This is the same song but a different verse. People have been so blinded by the brokenness of the internet as it is now that an interoperable protocol doesn’t make any sense to them.

I just wish this was a native function of one or both platforms. What a feather in Bluesky’s cap to say that they’re interoperable with Threads, for instance.

Fun fact: that was the original idea behind VLC! You could connect to video (and audio) streams. Hence, “VideoLAN.”

I don’t know what OP noticed in particular, but I immediately saw the interface collating other posts with the same URL as super helpful in making the Fediverse feel more contiguous.

Yes. If you’re subscribed to both, it should roll up posts with the same URL from similar communities (how does it know? Good question) into the same comment thread.

Not yet, at least not officially. I believe some people have tried out the open source code, but I’m not aware of anything active right now.

They say at the end of the month, but we all know how trustworthy those promises are.

Probably true, though the protocol is open source and can federate, so potentially has a lower blast radius next time as people can just bail to other ATProto servers.