Federate, you cowards!
Unlike Threads, there’s people on BlueSky I actually want to follow.
Bluesky backs a project that would let Mastodon apps, like Ivory, work with its network
Submitted 6 months ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
aasatru@kbin.earth 6 months ago
They should have been giving their money to Bridgy Fed, which is working to bridge the actual content of social media rather than the app APIs.
Well, actually, I would much rather Bridgy remains independent from Dorsey's blood money. Bluesky should just enable federation on a large scale so that it'll actually be possible to build services around it. Right now they cap federated instances at ten users, which is a complete joke.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
i believe they’ve endorsed bridge fed before; i’m not sure what the legalities of grants are and/if bridge fed asked for it
dameoutlaw@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
They are federating since February
big_slap@lemmy.world 6 months ago
theyre sinking too much money trying to avoid using activitypub
MashedTech@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What’s the point? Mastodon should work with them but they shouldn’t work with mastodon?
cyrus@wetdry.world 6 months ago
Fun fact:
The entirety of bluesky was supposed to be an activity pub extension at some point.
aniki@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Fuck Billionaires.
wisdomchicken@piefed.social 6 months ago
So confused that skybridge is now getting all the media attention lol. Its been around for over a year and hasnt been updated for 3 months. It works fine, its just that nobody actually bothered to use it. Not really clear how 800 dollars is going to make a difference here.
They couldve just checked the repo lol.
CatTrickery@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
It basically works with nothing to a reasonable extent on Android.
matcha_addict@lemy.lol 6 months ago
The biggest weakness of using activityPub is it is harder to control compared to rolling out your own variant.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 6 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Bluesky had announced last month that it would use some portion of its funds to fuel efforts in the developer ecosystem via the AT Protocol Grant program.
Notes SkyBridge’s developer @videah.net on Bluesky, the project is currently undergoing a significant rewrite from Dart to Rust, which is why its GitHub repo hasn’t seen much activity lately.
“It’s already proving to be much more stable, hoping to show it off soon,” videah posted on Bluesky when sharing the news of the grant.
Instagram Threads (which is integrating with ActivityPub) now has more than 150 million monthly active users, Meta announced this week during earnings.
Another software developer, Ryan Barrett, was the recipient of some backlash on GitHub when building another bridge called Bridgy Fed, which would be opt-out by default — meaning Mastodon posts would show up on Bluesky even if the post’s author hadn’t opted into this.
He readjusted his plans to build a discoverable opt-in instead, which would allow users to request to follow accounts on the different networks.
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Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Talking about that, can Lemmy users now check Mastodon ? I’d be curious to try it out although I don’t know who to follow really
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
You mean from your Lemmy account? Some thinga federate between Mastodon and Lemmy but I’m not sure if you can follow people
JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
…or BlueSky could stop being lame af and integrate activitypub.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
except atproto solves a ton of problems that activitypub refuse to fix, especially around portability
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
ActivityPub doesn’t refuse to fix them, it’s just not that simple. Solutions have been worked on for a while.
matcha_addict@lemy.lol 6 months ago
Can you give examples please?
onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 months ago
Much cheaper if somebody else does it for you 🧠 By the power of opensource!
Anti Commercial-AI license
julianh@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Tbf I think the way its federation works is inherently incompatible.
I could be entirely wrong though