Email has only solved the "authenticity problem" by centralizing to a tiny number of megaproviders with privileged trusted relationships. Forestalling that sort of "solution" seems to me one of the Blueksy team's design goals.
Servers go down or get flaky all the time for various reasons. Easy relocation (with no loss of content & relationships) and signed content (that remains readable/verifiable even through server bounciness) soften the frustrations.
55k tweets is little challenge to replicate, just like 50k signatures is little challenge to verify, here in the 2020s.
If Mastodon does everything better with a head start, it should have no problem continuing to serve its users, and new ones.
Alas, even just the Mastodon et al community emphasis on extreme limits on visibility & distribution – by personal preferences, by idiosyncratic server-to-server discourse standards, by sysop grudges, whatever – suppress a lot of the 'sizzle' that initially brought people to Twitter.
Bluesky having an even slightly greater tilt towards wider distribution, easier search, and relationships that can outlive server drama may attract some users who'd never be satisfied by Mastodon's twisty little warrens & handcrafted patterns-of-trust.
There's room for multiple approaches, different strokes for different folks.
Servers go down or get flaky all the time for various reasons. Easy relocation (with no loss of content & relationships) and signed content (that remains readable/verifiable even through server bounciness) soften the frustrations.
55k tweets is little challenge to replicate, just like 50k signatures is little challenge to verify, here in the 2020s.
If Mastodon does everything better with a head start, it should have no problem continuing to serve its users, and new ones.
Alas, even just the Mastodon et al community emphasis on extreme limits on visibility & distribution – by personal preferences, by idiosyncratic server-to-server discourse standards, by sysop grudges, whatever – suppress a lot of the 'sizzle' that initially brought people to Twitter.
Bluesky having an even slightly greater tilt towards wider distribution, easier search, and relationships that can outlive server drama may attract some users who'd never be satisfied by Mastodon's twisty little warrens & handcrafted patterns-of-trust.
There's room for multiple approaches, different strokes for different folks.