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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?

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (28 children)

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/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It's a good blog post, thanks. I made a quick summery elsewhere in the thread.

It's really unfortunate that we've ended up with two populated protocols for federation, both of which have a major flaw. In our case, it's no established support for moving accounts. In theirs, its a component that's so bulky the federatability is questionable (and no federated DMs).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

both of which have a major flaw

What major flaw do you believe ActivityPub has?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They mentioned the flaws of both platforms.

In our case, it's no established support for moving accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks! Does Lemmy display something when people have their cake day so it's easily visible? Mbin (which I use) doesn't, so I wasn't actually aware until I saw your comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yes it does. You have a little cake next to your username, kind of the same way as on old Reddit.

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