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Bluesky federation goes live (bsky.social)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They were clear from the start they they were doing bsky in part because they didn't like ActivityPub as a protocol.

I mean, I'm sure they really just wanted to control the protocol development more than anything, not liking the protocol was what they said. It was meant to be a direct competitor to Mastodon from day one.