Submitted 1 year ago by CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to fediverse@lemmy.world
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?
Bluesky should just turn on ActivityPub at this point
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
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.
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?
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.
It's very difficult to use. As a dev, it's not the greatest.
Oh? Complicated, fragile, something else?
The spec requires a huge relay for everything as well as not the greatest docs/missing pieces.
There’s also this:
frontpage.fyi
Not sure which of the two has been around longer, but looks like frontpage is also pretty slow going.
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.
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.
See here. Basically, creating a relay for the AT protocol is extremely costly and only possible for big tech companies with lots of investors.
The data is not centralized, but everyone is using the same aggravation service (indexer) to access the data.
rah@feddit.uk 1 year ago
What do you mean?
ActivityPub is decentralised. AT has a centralised user directory. They’re not comparable.