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?
@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.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse
> 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?Hell no. Let them adopt AP which is a standard.
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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 why would we trust them?
@ajsadauskas I mainly wanna keep Fedi mostly noncommercial and entirely nonproprietary.
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As someone who’s used both, the way federation works on Bluesky/Atproto is very different to how ActivityPub works. It’s very much a backend thing, letting that do the heavy lifting and prevent the user from worrying about it as much as you have to here, rather than trying to make its fediverse a whole experience.
As for Tumblr, there was talk about bringing it to the fediverse and Wordpress themselves have already allowed users of their hosted blog service to opt-in to this, but have not done it for Tumblr. And Threads? Well, there was a pact to fediblock Threads because of its ties to Facebook, so there’s that.
@Flaky @ajsadauskas yeah I think people are being ridiculous acting like this is some plot to destabilize mastodon and not genuinely trying to improve the flaws in activitypub, whatever their other motivations may be
@ajsadauskas @fediverse
I expect connecting with BlueSky would do more harm than good, so effort spent making it happen seems not worth itLet’s have this conversation once BlueSky is actually open
“No billionaires, probably no VCs” has been a very useful razor for me.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse my understanding is that the models and design principles are completely different between AT and AP.
But even if technical and philosophical hurdles could be overcome, I think adding 2M Extremely Online users to fedi would be a wash; it seems like most people pick either fedi or bsky for cultural reasons and smooshing the two together would just make everyone unhappy.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse
…on the other hand, isekai-ing ten thousand German FOSS reply guys into the World of Shitposting and Discourse* would result in some entertaining fireworks, so who’s to say?* Oops I accidentally a Homestuck reference (and I don’t even like Homestuck). Clearly the platform I spend too much time on isn’t fedi or bsky - it’s Tumblr.
Mo’ protocols mo’ problems.
What does the AT protocol offer software already using ActivityPub?
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