With BlueSky moving towards finally opening up federation, I’m interested in how people feel about it?
Would you be open to the idea of Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and other Fediverse platforms adopting the AT protocol in order to federate with it?
If those technical hurdles could be overcome, would you support your instance federating with BlueSky?
Does the same go for other commercially-owned platforms, such as Threads and Tumblr?
No point in adapting to their protocol, that’s for sure.
I don’t know, account portability would be kind of cool. With ActivityPub with a ban or server shutdown, your account is just gone.
Thats just one feature, might be possible to implement in AP.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse I’d quite like to be able to link up with people I miss who are on other platforms.
For now we only have one instance on BlueSky but I’m deffinitly moving to my own self hosted one (when they enable us to do so)
@ajsadauskas @fediverse why would we trust them?
@ajsadauskas @fediverse
I expect connecting with BlueSky would do more harm than good, so effort spent making it happen seems not worth itIf we talking about the complete structure of the fediverse changing to connect to a single service (like abandoning Activity Pup and instead using a closed protocol that is controlled only by one company), then definitely Yes that is the worst idea even.
But since many fediverse services will simply not be able to use Blue Sky’s protocol, because it is designed for a very limited use case, I don’t even see why should talk about this.
However if Blue sky would adapt to the fediverse. It would only be a win for us. If they decide to not play by the rules they will be band. Fediverse is very robust and we don’t need to be afraid of anything as long as we stick too our basic principles.
The path forward I think would be some sort of a bridge service. Think of it as a translation layer that could take in updates from both ActivityPub and AT, and present to the opposing side like it were native. Something similar was developed for nostr to communicate with the fediverse, and it seems at least feasible in this case as well.
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Bluesky doesn’t even have an app available for us who don’t have access to the google store. So it is a no go for me.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse @LaQuadrature’s article had pondered on the risk of being phagocyted by Threads here: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/08/23/is-metas-arrival-on-the-fediverse-good-news/
Hubzilla will support it for sure
Seems like there is a lot of people in this thread that are confused about BlueSky federating even means. BlueSky’s plans for federation have nothing to do with the fediverse. It’s about enabling federation with other AT protocol services, including self-hosting a personal data server.
I would like to see some sort of bridge built to allow communication between AT protocol services and ActivityPub protocol services.
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@ajsadauskas @fediverse Why would existing :fediverse: servers waste breath to support Bluesky’s protocol? Let Bluesky implement ActivityPub - should not go backwards 🤔 Otherwise why even bother?
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@aidasb @gytis @ajsadauskas @fediverse
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Though smart phone is since 1998, not 2005. ARM based from about 2002.
See also SMS vs Google vs Apple iMessage.
Also Mail on Android isn’t. It’s using Google servers with your settings. You can install real email clients on Android. Also Google has “taken over” SMS & MMS on Android phones.
Don’t adopt AT or negotiate with any platform. Let them adopt AP and don’t give them a seat on development. Google is wrecking Web Browsers.
This came to digital blows over whether to federate with Threads not so long ago. A LOT of us said hell no to letting Meta’s data vampirism and sociopathic surveillance back into our networks.
