shazow
@shazow.eth
How can open social protocols fail us? I put together an analysis comparing several specific failure modes between Farcaster, Bluesky, and Mastodon. Please let me know if any of the protocol descriptions could be presented more fairly! https://shazow.net/posts/open-social-2025/
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androidsixteen 🌲
@androidsixteen.eth
Great read, small typo `shazow.bsky.socialf` What is your recommendation for people who are looking to invest / commit to an open social protocol -- which would you recommend (could be more than one), and where would you deploy resources to improve that protocol?
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Pushed a fix, ty! My fav thing about Farcaster is the sovereign ID, onchain key management, and native payments/onchain operations. My fav thing about Bluesky is ATProto and the layered architecture that can be scaled separately (DID -> PDS -> Relays -> AppView). It's a controversial take but I suspect there is a "better than the sum of its parts" synthesis here! It would be a far smaller change to bring Farcaster to a mostly-Bluesky-compatible ATProto than the reverse. Think of it like Threads coming to Mastodon: https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth/0xd76e8ff3 That said, if I were to "invest" long term, I'm not very bullish on public global social feeds. On a 10+ year timescale, my bet would be on new kinds of private group chats that cross-pollinate and publish public byproducts. My fav things about Farcaster are likely still relevant here!
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