Comment on Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only
Natanael@slrpnk.net 9 months agoThey have federation on in their sandbox network with 3rd party clients already working, but it’s not going to talk activitypub
Comment on Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only
Natanael@slrpnk.net 9 months agoThey have federation on in their sandbox network with 3rd party clients already working, but it’s not going to talk activitypub
BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 9 months ago
Non-activitypub federated protocols? Who is even the 3rd party in this instance? Nostr?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Nostr is a wildly different protocol from atprotocol and activitypub.
Activitypub is very much like email (SMTP) over http, pushing messages between servers. Atprotocol is instead using a repository model per user points aggregation servers and a pull model for retrieval. Nostr is a P2P protocol with “gossip nodes”
BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 9 months ago
Yeah, I more I learn about this stuff I can't see the purpose of this new protocol versus the existing ones (not to even mention all the activitypub/fediverse spinoffs too).
Natanael@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Account portability for one thing, with accounts being defined by the DID and repository and not server name + path you can easily switch servers