BlueSky is federated also. Only using a different protocol.
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Blaze@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Thanks for sharing.
How relevant is Threads? Seems like most people who still want a centralized microblogging platform moved to BlueSky
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 week ago
kbal@fedia.io 1 week ago
Is it really? Seems hard to find out. Anyone have a list of Bluesky servers other than the central one with open signups?
ericjmorey@discuss.online 1 week ago
AT protocol doesn’t federate the way ActivityPub does. There are separations between how your dat is stored, how it is aggregated, how it is filtered, and how it is displayed. Each part can be hosted separately and federate differently with separate instances of each part. The aggregation part is the thing that is most critical and there are probably some limited independent instances of that, but BlueSky has offered no support in facilitating this beyond making their peices AT Protocol compliant. You van take what BlueSky built and try to run your own instance of the aggregation service but they provide no documentation or support. You could also build your own, but that’s difficult and I don’t think anyone is trying.
So it is federated, but no pretty much one is interested in doing the work to federate with the primary infrastructure.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 week ago
It’s not hard to find out. It uses their own AT protocol. I don’t know if there’s a list but if I open the app, pretty much everyone I see is running on a federated server…
kbal@fedia.io 1 week ago
Well, what are some popular servers? Are there several big ones?
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t think that Threads or BlueSky really took off. I think the majority of people who haven’t outright deleted the app are still on Twitter.
fossphi@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I’m not so sure. I talked to some people who knew about threads, a couple even had accounts. These are not tech oriented people. Moreover, I quite often see memes/screenshots of bluesky posts right here.
Make of that what you will. I have no numbers or anything, but it seems like they’re not as dead as we might think.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 week ago
They arent dead, but they are in the millions of users, not hundreds of millions.
That is enough to sustain a social media platform, but none of them fully have the network effect going for them yet.
With federation, they won’t need it. That can be the network effect once interoperability is really here