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    Even if it doesnt have much impact on activitypub-fedi, I think this is good news for the fediverse in general. X is loosing more and more relevancy and microblogging is more and more happening on federating services.

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      I’m having trouble figuring out how bluesky is part of the fediverse at all.

      From my understanding it doesn’t federate with anything.

      It’s like saying a hamburger is really just a cheeseburger…you just need to add cheese.

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        In theory, bluesky can federate with other apps but it is currently the only one using their protocol, bluesky servers can federate with each other and when a new project using atprotocol appears it will probably be able to federate with that

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          You can see other instances at work in the app already. There is an @ symbol that says where the message comes from, and those differ from each other already.

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    Techcrunch has basically been an ad network for companies who want to promote themselves. Other open source projects probably don’t have a budget to pay for an a̶r̶t̶i̶c̶l̶e̶ ad spot.

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    Blue sky leads to the same trap Twitter was. A place that will be purchased by some asshole that shits on everyone for money.

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      You’ll be shocked to know that bluesky is open source then and PDS is well on its way to allowing you to host your own instance.

  • Mwas alt (prob)@thelemmy.club
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    i dont like bluesky bcs its missing alot of features compared to mastodon and twitter also when you host bluesky the server you hosted you cant view bsky.social so thats why i use mastodon alongside

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    Good. Competition is good. If they suceed or fail just means we learn and build a better product.

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    It would be interesting to know more about the additional users. The banning of Shitter in Brazil is very much tied to internal politics and AFAIK it might be the Brazilian equivalent to MAGA that is currently mass-migrating to Bluesky.

    If so, this might be a bad thing for them, as they probably don’t want to get perceived as the Brazilian truth.social.

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      it might be the Brazilian equivalent to MAGA that is currently mass-migrating to Bluesky.

      actually, the opposite. The MAGA types are doing whatever they can to continue sucking on Elon’s balls. It’s journos and normies who are moving to Bluesky.

    • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br
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      Brazilian MAGA = Most Bolsonaro supporters. Of course, there are some decent people who aren’t 100% fanatic, but most of them would be the equivalent to those hat-wearers.

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    If I have mastodon, how and when can I follow Blue sky users? I read something about an adapter server or something, but I don’t know what that means in a practical sense.

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      There is Bridgy Fed, which bridges accounts over to the other side if they follow the respective Bridgy Fed account on their platform. This is opt-ín though, so you can’t just follow anyone, they need to have followed @ap.brid.gy on Bluesky. To have your interactions bridged you need to follow @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy.

      If the account you want to follow is not bridged and you are okay with just reading their posts, you can also use a service like RSS Parrot as every Bluesky account also serves as an RSS feed.

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        Just an FYI for the RSS thing: if a Bluesky account is set to be viewable to logged-in users only, its RSS feed will not work. It only works if the profile is viewable publicly without logging in.

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    Is there an easy to understand explanation to the differences of the AT Protocol and ActivityPub?

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      iirc, atprotocol was made to bring some features of mainstream social media to the fediverse that activitypub maintainer have said they won’t be adding. They explain other reasons in their faq

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        Many of the functions provided by a Mastodon service is split into separate services in the AT Protocol. This means there are instances that just handle an end users data, instances that just handle indexing and streaming out the amalgamated end user data being streamed to the “relay”, there are instances that are just filtering the stream from the indexing relay. so basically the various backend parts are modular with the AT Protocol rather than monolithic as is assumed by the ActivityPub protocol where separation is assumed to be only between the frontend and backend of the service.

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    Sorry if this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but how do we know that BlueSky isn’t padding their stats with internal bots? I could see this being a viable strategy to attract users and overcome the social network bootstrapping problem.

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      They could be, but 2M new Brazilian users after Twitter’s block there actually seems quite low and definitely credible.