I consider BlueSky a "Musk-Free" Twitter for most intents and purposes... At least the protocol is a little more transparent and BridgyFed is an effort to make them interoperable.
52Yeah I don’t get why people are so judgy towards it here on lemmy.
It’s like a halfway between twitter and mastodon. And whether you like it or not it has a feature (algorithm) which mastodon doesn’t that makes people far more likely to use it.
It’s not as “good” in terms of not being company owned as mastodon. But it’s add-free, open source, and there’s some proto-federation going on. I mean I’m hosting my own instance there. Mostly it’s got far more funding than mastodon which means it’s already becoming feature rich even though it only released to the public a couple months ago, and it’s far less buggy than mastodon.
14I mean I’m hosting my own instance there.
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I'm curious, this is a personal PDS, so other people cannot register on it, right?
Yeah I don’t get why people are so judgy towards it here on lemmy.
The current state of Twitter probably makes people here very cautious about anything that might look similar to pre-Musk Twitter without any mechanism preventing such a scenario to happen again.
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Was surprised to see threads take up federation quicker then bluesky, especially since they needed it the least.
32They may actually need it more as a figleaf in case the regulators come sniffing round.
Bluesky currently doesn't really need it, so they are half-arsing it.
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Bluesky is federated?
15They have a concept of a plan to federate.
54Yeah, it's Federated with loads of cool places that are real, but you don't know them, they go to a different school.
45That's the intention, but they have their own protocol, not activitypub.
14Not really: https://lemmy.world/post/19531540
13Tbf a lot of the arguments against their federation capabilities here is that they make it hard to access, which is a much smarter decision from a user experience perspective. Majority of the general public has absolutely zero idea wtf federation and instances means and that's okay, they just need a quick way to sign up and get using the platform.
Considering you can host your own PDS and Relay I would consider that close enough to federation that it should be included in fediverse discussions and shouldn't splinter.
The big architectural difference is instead of AP federation with each instance it's just one massive firehouse on the protocol (federation with all default) which absolutely has its benefits compared to ActivityPub.
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