@ajsadauskas @fediverse Why would existing :fediverse: servers waste breath to support Bluesky's protocol? Let Bluesky implement ActivityPub - should not go backwards π€ Otherwise why even bother?
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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No point in adapting to their protocol, that's for sure.
I don't know, account portability would be kind of cool. With ActivityPub with a ban or server shutdown, your account is just gone.
Thats just one feature, might be possible to implement in AP.
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> Would you be open to the idea of Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and other Fediverse platforms adopting the AT protocol in order to federate with it?
Hell no. Let them adopt AP which is a standard.
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I expect connecting with BlueSky would do more harm than good, so effort spent making it happen seems not worth it
If we talking about the complete structure of the fediverse changing to connect to a single service (like abandoning Activity Pup and instead using a closed protocol that is controlled only by one company), then definitely Yes that is the worst idea even.
But since many fediverse services will simply not be able to use Blue Sky's protocol, because it is designed for a very limited use case, I don't even see why should talk about this.
However if Blue sky would adapt to the fediverse. It would only be a win for us. If they decide to not play by the rules they will be band. Fediverse is very robust and we don't need to be afraid of anything as long as we stick too our basic principles.
The path forward I think would be some sort of a bridge service. Think of it as a translation layer that could take in updates from both ActivityPub and AT, and present to the opposing side like it were native. Something similar was developed for nostr to communicate with the fediverse, and it seems at least feasible in this case as well.
As someone who's used both, the way federation works on Bluesky/Atproto is very different to how ActivityPub works. It's very much a backend thing, letting that do the heavy lifting and prevent the user from worrying about it as much as you have to here, rather than trying to make its fediverse a whole experience.
As for Tumblr, there was talk about bringing it to the fediverse and Wordpress themselves have already allowed users of their hosted blog service to opt-in to this, but have not done it for Tumblr. And Threads? Well, there was a pact to fediblock Threads because of its ties to Facebook, so there's that.
Unfortunately it seems like development on Tumblr has been reduced to a skeleton crew. I wouldn't hold my breath for ActivityPub integration on that front now.
Yeah :\
They did mention that they were planning to make Tumblr open-source, which might've been why they said that. I could see ActivityPub integration there in that event.
@Flaky @ajsadauskas yeah I think people are being ridiculous acting like this is some plot to destabilize mastodon and not genuinely trying to improve the flaws in activitypub, whatever their other motivations may be
Bluesky doesn't even have an app available for us who don't have access to the google store. So it is a no go for me.
Let's have this conversation once BlueSky is actually open
I would like to see some sort of bridge built to allow communication between AT protocol services and ActivityPub protocol services.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse @LaQuadrature's article had pondered on the risk of being phagocyted by Threads here: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/08/23/is-metas-arrival-on-the-fediverse-good-news/
For now we only have one instance on BlueSky but I'm deffinitly moving to my own self hosted one (when they enable us to do so)
This came to digital blows over whether to federate with Threads not so long ago. A LOT of us said hell no to letting Meta's data vampirism and sociopathic surveillance back into our networks.
Seems like there is a lot of people in this thread that are confused about BlueSky federating even means. BlueSky's plans for federation have nothing to do with the fediverse. It's about enabling federation with other AT protocol services, including self-hosting a personal data server.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse I'd quite like to be able to link up with people I miss who are on other platforms.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse my understanding is that the models and design principles are completely different between AT and AP.
But even if technical and philosophical hurdles could be overcome, I think adding 2M Extremely Online users to fedi would be a wash; it seems like most people pick either fedi or bsky for cultural reasons and smooshing the two together would just make everyone unhappy.
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...on the other hand, isekai-ing ten thousand German FOSS reply guys into the World of Shitposting and Discourse* would result in some entertaining fireworks, so who's to say?
* Oops I accidentally a Homestuck reference (and I don't even like Homestuck). Clearly the platform I spend too much time on isn't fedi or bsky - it's Tumblr.
Mo' protocols mo' problems.
What does the AT protocol offer software already using ActivityPub?
Once they've transferred governance to some other entity, sure. That's gonna take years though, they said so themselves. Standardizing a protocol isn't something that can be done overnight, and that's fully their intention with ATProto.
I'm keenly interested in the protocol, but I also question its flexibility as to the content it can be used to post and distribute. That's something we'll have to wait for federation to come to see people start playing with. If it becomes a standard, governed by a non-partisan body, and is flexible to a variety of content types, I see no reason to stay with ActivityPub except that the software's already here.