No joke, this PR adds preliminary ActivityPub (i.e. Mastodon) support to the PDS. 🤯
IMPORTANT: You shouldn't expect full interoperability with this alone! At most, you should expect that your p...
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
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.
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.
Tbd but bluesky is at least pretending for now that it is user focused.
So this can be symbiotic
Isn’t that part of the benefit of federating, too? If Bluesky turns heel, just cut it back off again.
Mere mortals
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.