Bluesky, which uses it, has been opened to federation now, and the standard basically just looks better than ActivityPub. Has anyone heard about a project to make a Lemmy-style “link aggregator” service on it?
What about AT protocol?
Submitted 1 month ago by CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to fediverse@lemmy.world
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misk@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Really? In what way?
Digital identities being cryptographic and independent of any one instance is huge all on it’s own. The rest of it I understand less clearly, but it looks pretty modular.
gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee 1 month ago
See here. Basically, creating a relay for the AT protocol is extremely costly and only possible for big tech companies with lots of investors.
ericjmorey@discuss.online 1 month ago
The data is not centralized, but everyone is using the same aggravation service (indexer) to access the data.
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There’s also this:
frontpage.fyiNot sure which of the two has been around longer, but looks like frontpage is also pretty slow going.
timconspicuous@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The main difference between Threadsky and Frontpage is that Threadsky is just yet another Bluesky re-skin, it’s just regular Bluesky posts presented in a reddit-like format, whereas Frontpage has its own dedicated lexicon and doesn’t ingest the Bluesky firehose at all. I think Frontpage is really neat, but it has been shown little love unfortunately, it hasn’t meaningfully changed in months.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 month ago
It's very difficult to use. As a dev, it's not the greatest.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Oh? Complicated, fragile, something else?
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 month ago
The spec requires a huge relay for everything as well as not the greatest docs/missing pieces.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Bluesky should just turn on ActivityPub at this point
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Leaving aside all the work they did making an alternative more to their liking, that kind of implies it’s like a light switch, and it’s not.
jackalope@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I wish they would but also ATPro has features that activity pub doesn’t, ones which I think activity pub needs to adopt if it is to stay relevant
Oskar@piefed.social 1 month ago
If Bluesky becomes federated with multiple instances, it will be just as impossible to enter as ActivityPub-based services apparently are since instance-selection is a blocker.
RIght?
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Yep, probably. People are just going to have to get used to it to certain degree, and to a certain degree there’s going to be .world-type instances that act as a user-friendly default.
rah@feddit.uk 1 month ago
What do you mean?
ActivityPub is decentralised. AT has a centralised user directory. They’re not comparable.