This is really big imo.
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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
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I dunno. I still posts from the Bluesky bridge getting boosts. This might not be as bad Threads.
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Isn’t that part of the benefit of federating, too? If Bluesky turns heel, just cut it back off again.
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Exactly. It is a huge, authoritarian, corporate platform that can absolutely ruin the fedi if it ever turns against us (think ads, bad moderation, nudging campaigns, etc).
Its not at all as black and white as threads is but it is still a huge problem.
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)
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Watch then deny it cos it will threaten their market capture lol
They’ll say something like “can’t handle the scale”
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.
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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.
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Let me just ask the less technical and more important questions:
- If BSky goes out of business and shuts down their servers, will these continue to function?
- Does BSky still have any control at all over moderation?
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Right… it did take me a minute to remember how the relays work. Well, when there are a few hundred of them we’ll see how it goes.
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Really? I thought there were only two. How are the small ones able to afford the bandwidth to monitor everything from every PDS?
because hosting a full-network relay is super cheap, including bandwidth. there are multiple people who are running full-network relays (monitoring and relaying everything from every PDS) for less than 30USD per month
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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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