Bluesky, which uses it, has been opened to federation now, and the standard basically just looks better than ActivityPub. Has anyone heard about a project to make a Lemmy-style “link aggregator” service on it?

  • egerlach@lemmy.caEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    There was a good discussion online between Christine Lemmer-Webber, one of the editors of the ActivityPub W3C Standard, and Bryan Newbold, protocol engineer at BlueSky.

    These are long reads. But they are worth reading. Christine and Bryan agree that ATProto and ActivityPub have different design goals and so what you get from “federation” with each is different. ATProto makes a centralized index of the entire system possible, at the cost of relying on very few (practically likely one) centralized providers.

    As a result, the Lemmy ecosystem, as it exists today, wouldn’t be possible with ATProto. It would probably look more like Reddit, but with a “credible exit” possible as a defense against enshittification.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    2 days ago

    ha, no… bluesky is not open to federation. they control the only router and do not allow connectivity to routers not controlled by them.

    there isnt a single non-bluesky controlled instance that can federate natively with bluesky.

    bluesky is just twitter with a little more user-controllable data sourcing. not that theres anything wrong with that, but its certainly not a part of any federation.

    e. suggested reading: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

      • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 days ago

        it’s closer to a serious article than a blogpost

        I find it bizarre and plain wrong to imply that blog posts can’t be serious articles.