“Bluesky” itself is trademarked and all the rest, but it uses AtProtocol which is a completely open federation protocol. AtProtocol doesn’t have the support of ActivityPub because it’s much newer and also more complicated (for good reason, but still).
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pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 months agoI don’t think bluesky was federated. Not in the sense that anybody can start making bluesky servers in their room
rmuk@feddit.uk 11 months ago
73ms@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Whether anything about it is for a good reason is very much a contested point. There are significant issues they introduced with the design while trying to address some that exist in ActivityPub.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
its just a clone of early twitter, basically.