Mostly just the protocol. Mastodon uses ActivityPub. Bluesky uses some other shit.
Comment on Bluesky posts are finally open to the public
ZeroDrek@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can someone explain to me how Bluesky is different than Mastodon and if it’s not different why they bothered creating it when Mastodon exists? I truly don’t get it.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Atprotocol.
Mastodon and activitypub is very much like social media implemented trading public email lists implemented in HTTP (push massages between servers).
Bluesky uses content addressing (think magnet links for torrents, but for linking to post data) and pull mechanism with notifications, plus public shared archive nodes (CDN-like servers).
The main difference is that you’re much more independent of individual servers and can easily move your account around, since your account ID is tied to a cryptographic key belonging to your account which you bring with you along with your post archive, and your handle can be based on a domain name you own (also works as a verification mechanism you don’t have to pay extra for).
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 year ago
It has a data salad which has the benefit of making it marginally easier to migrate accounts and also makes it much more resource intensive and unsafe.
nutsack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
less confusing to sign up and use, nice clean looking app, same look and feel as the OG twitter
ahal@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
You could build all that on top of Mastodon too though. E.g mozilla.social uses Firefox accounts to sign in and the Elk theme.
Desistance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And equally requires an invite code.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Original Twitter had a shit app, that was always the case too people used third party apps which became a cause for the exodus when that Twat stopped them working.