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Bluesky is federated?
They have a concept of a plan to federate.
Yeah, it’s Federated with loads of cool places that are real, but you don’t know them, they go to a different school.
Not really: https://lemmy.world/post/19531540
Tbf a lot of the arguments against their federation capabilities here is that they make it hard to access, which is a much smarter decision from a user experience perspective. Majority of the general public has absolutely zero idea wtf federation and instances means and that’s okay, they just need a quick way to sign up and get using the platform.
Considering you can host your own PDS and Relay I would consider that close enough to federation that it should be included in fediverse discussions and shouldn’t splinter.
The big architectural difference is instead of AP federation with each instance it’s just one massive firehouse on the protocol (federation with all default) which absolutely has its benefits compared to ActivityPub.
The fact that there is still to this date no alternative Bluesky server that can be used to register seems to indicate that they put the entry cost to federation too high.
If the federation is only theoretical and never happens in reality, it’s not really federated.
Was surprised to see threads take up federation quicker then bluesky, especially since they needed it the least.
They may actually need it more as a figleaf in case the regulators come sniffing round.
Bluesky currently doesn’t really need it, so they are half-arsing it.
I consider BlueSky a “Musk-Free” Twitter for most intents and purposes… At least the protocol is a little more transparent and BridgyFed is an effort to make them interoperable.
Yeah I don’t get why people are so judgy towards it here on lemmy.
It’s like a halfway between twitter and mastodon. And whether you like it or not it has a feature (algorithm) which mastodon doesn’t that makes people far more likely to use it.
It’s not as “good” in terms of not being company owned as mastodon. But it’s add-free, open source, and there’s some proto-federation going on. I mean I’m hosting my own instance there. Mostly it’s got far more funding than mastodon which means it’s already becoming feature rich even though it only released to the public a couple months ago, and it’s far less buggy than mastodon.
