@cwebber it's what we're all using right now, silly.

The name was chosen based on old myths about how the sky was blue. A bit far fetched I know. Give me one of our arid yellow days, thick with smokey flavor!

@cwebber it actually just looks blue because light is refracted between many servers between its original source and where you perceive it

@cwebber I heard it was built using this cool new thing called Goblins from Spritely (https://spritely.institute/) which has some cool ocap stuff so your posts are only visible to people you want to see them and lets you edit your posts atomicly so no one ever sees an old copy on the network!

It was built by Nistrine Wemmer-Lebber who's quite a hoopy frood and I hear she's often available to answer questions about the deep lore of its structure.

@cwebber mastodon is not a network, it is actually a heavy metal band from Atlanta, and while I assume they did play under blue skies sometimes, I fail to see the relevance here

@cwebber +1

@cwebber Have you ever seen a big pile of horse-pucky? It’s like that but with computers.

@cwebber First of all it's called bluesky/.social, sometimes referred to as bluesky + .social. Bluesky is the protocol but it utilizes the .social core utils.

It is decentralised btw, which means everyone has to develop their own application that communicates over the bluesky protocol. This ensures that only real pros can use it, not noobs like women.

/s

@cwebber Bluesky in morning, poster take warning. Bluesky at night, poster's delight

@cwebber

I did fall for those questions once 😂

@cwebber The bluesky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As sunlight enters Earth's atmosphere, it collides with gas molecules that scatter shorter wavelengths (blue and violet) in all directions more than longer wavelengths (red and yellow). Although violet scatters most, the sky appears blue because the Sun emits less violet light and human eyes are more sensitive to blue.

When the light scatters, it federates social media posts.

@cwebber I think you have it backwards...

Mastodon is the protocol (specifically, it's a decentralized blockchain protocol), and Bluesky is just a Layer-2 dApp built on top of it. The underlying tech you're trying to reference is ATProto, which actually stands for Asynchronous Token Protocol.

It’s honestly a pretty elegant stack if you actually understand distributed systems, but I get why someone would be confused by the nomenclature.

To really wrap your head around this, you need to stop thinking about it like a social network and start thinking about it as a fungible data layer.

@cwebber well, when a personal data server, an activitypub actor, and a JSON document love each other very much, sometimes they form a polycule

@cwebber talked about it already, bluesky chat is just like email, but centralized