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  • This is big. Bluesky is getting lots of traction with normies who want off Twitter. Mastodon and pleroma and pixelfed all about to become much more discoverable

  • You shouldn't expect full interoperability with this alone! At most, you should expect that your public posts get shared with your followers on Mastodon (i.e. an outbox)

    fart noises

  • That's the benefit of Bluesky being totally centralized, not built with any capability for federation: When they decide to add some, they can hardly fail to see that it's best to go with ActivityPub.

    • Thats completely untrue :) .

      app.wafrn.net is a separate app that connects to bluesky, atproto.africa is an alternate relay, deer.social is an alt appview.

      You can use bluesky without relying on bluesky now.

      • Hmm, let's see if I remember the terminology correctly:

        Client apps have nothing to do with it, obviously.

        Alternate appviews have nothing to do with it, except in that they'd presumably need to work with whatever form of atproto federation exists, if any did.

        Alternate relays aren't federated unless there's some protocol for routing messages between them — such as ActivityPub.

  • Really cool honestly. How big it is is probably predicated on if Bluesky enabled it for PDS'es on bsky.social.

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