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A post to traverse the Fediverse & beyond :fedi: (social.heise.de)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A post to traverse the Fediverse & beyond :fedi:

Third time's a charm: This post can be seen with #Mastodon, #Bluesky, #Sharkey, #Mbin, #Lemmy, #Friendica, #Hubzilla, #Hometown, #Akkoma & more.

Please share it wherever you see it in the #Fediverse

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Does BlueSky now have ActivityPub support?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I was wondering the same thing. How does it belong to the fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@Quacksalber

https://www.heise.de/en/news/The-Fediverse-is-growing-After-Threads-Bluesky-can-also-be-linked-to-Mastodon-9745631.html

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ok, so it works, but it more or less hacked tohether and not officially supported. BlueSky still wants to have its walled garfen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Strictly speaking it's not a walled garden for not being compatible with activitypub, it's just a different protocol. The infrastructure is open source, but some critical parts (the relay) are still run only by bsky pbc with no clear way to switch to a competitor. But anyone can host an account on their own server and connect to the network

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The infrastructure is open source, but some critical parts (the relay) are still run only by bsky pbc with no clear way to switch to a competitor.

Seems a bit strange in terms of ownership, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's like a milder form of how git is open source but GitHub is a centralized service. And all the nice non-git social features such as stars and issues and discussions are proprietary.

For the bsky protcol the extra stuff is (mostly) open source too but it'd still be very expensive to build a reliable full featured alternative so 95% of people just default to GitHub/bsky.app