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[–] blue_berry 102 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even if it doesnt have much impact on activitypub-fedi, I think this is good news for the fediverse in general. X is loosing more and more relevancy and microblogging is more and more happening on federating services.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 82 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm having trouble figuring out how bluesky is part of the fediverse at all.

From my understanding it doesn't federate with anything.

It's like saying a hamburger is really just a cheeseburger......you just need to add cheese.

[–] mesamunefire 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It has an adapter that integrated with the current protocol.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Oh great. That bridge even federates with the bitcoin bros' network (nostr)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which one is that. I guess I've been left out of the loop.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Maybe they mean Nostr? If so, describing it as "the bitcoin bros' network" is a bit misleading, since the "crypto" portion of Nostr is short for "cryptography", not "cryptocurrency".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Ah, so the kind of crypto bro, that instead of a fistbump, does a diffie-hellman key exchange instead?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, no. I literally mean the majority of the community there. All I see there is blockchain and bitcoin shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think Nostr might unironically be my favourite platform, simply because it keeps those toxic morons away from the fediverse.

[–] blue_berry 2 points 2 months ago

:D good one. My new favourite take on nostr.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I really like the Nostr protocol, though. It's too bad the network is so inundated by cryptocurrency topics.

It's simple, it has a nice extension process (standing on the shoulders of giants), and it's super easy and lightweight to self-host. It reminds me a lot of the early days of http, when it was more common (as a developer) to telnet to port 80 and just type in a couple of lines of header and get a response.

Sadly, Nostr's association with cryptocurrency, and the fact that 90% of the traffic on it is cryptocurrency created posts, has been a severe handicap.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In theory, bluesky can federate with other apps but it is currently the only one using their protocol, bluesky servers can federate with each other and when a new project using atprotocol appears it will probably be able to federate with that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can see other instances at work in the app already. There is an @ symbol that says where the message comes from, and those differ from each other already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you link to one of these other instances?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you can link bluesky to your personal domain. I'm not sure how it works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From what I've seen it's only single person instance where they use their domain names as user.

Not something you expect a standard person to have

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It's not a single person instance either, it's just using your own domain in your handle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is only one bluesky it's literally centralized

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any example of federated instance where registrations are open?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

According to this blog post, they are currently limited to 10 accounts, so not many open servers, but you can host your own.

This is an old blog post, though, so the limit might have been lifted