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is ready to open the network.

Starting today, Bluesky will not require invite codes anymore and anyone can join the network. Later this month, the team will roll out an "experimental early version of federation", allowing other people to run their own 'Personal Data Server' (PDS).

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@fediversereport bout time.🤣

They've been spouting their "open protocol" bs for 2 years now and I wondered when they'd make good on that.

@BeAware @fediversereport The protocol has been open since the beginning, I've been building on it since April :)

@mackuba Any ATProto instances that is already connected with Bluesky right now?

I might want to take a look.

@ccoremapd You can't connect independent instances yet, but it's coming soon (they said end of this month I think). I mean you can but on a sandbox network, not with the production servers. The parts that have been open so far was reading/writing anything to the existing servers and hosting custom feed generators. Custom labellers (moderation services) are also coming soon.

@mackuba Hopefully, we can see more topic-focused instances at the end of this month. While custom feed generators are generally good, it's still not enough for me.

@ccoremapd As I understand, instances (PDSes really) won't serve as important role in ATProto as on Fedi, they will be mostly about where you keep your data, but won't have such "community forming" power as here… It's designed more to form a single connected space (logically) than a set of interconnected separate islands. The upside is that you don't need to commit to one specific community since you can be a part of many. Hopefully hashtags will be finished soon because that should help a lot.

@mackuba Ah I see, I was hoping it would be the same mechanism as ActivityPub. As for their main concern with ActivityPub is data portability. But, this is more complex than I thought it would be.

Thank you for clarifying with your statement about ATProto instances. I think I'll have to learn more about this federated social media (ActivityPub and ATProto) that we're facing. :-)

@fediversereport@mastodon.social Personally, I'd still rather use fediverse software with an activitypub protocol like mastodon or misskey than use something like bluesky or nostr :gura_neko_think:

@fediversereport Interesting, but Bluesky really is a solution looking for a problem, yet it has its own problems, that make it not worth using

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This is the enemy. Never support any venture of Jack Dorsey..That's stupidity 2.0.

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The people I know who are on Bluesky tell me they're having fun, and show me quality posts from there.

I suspect that this is entirely because they've had their invite system. They've been neglecting to develop their moderation staff and they have too few moderation tools for users.

I predict the quality of the experience is about to go down fast.

@MegaMichelle
Looking forward to the avalanche of posts pining for the “good old days” of BS before any rando could join and post their quite possibly unvetted hot take or even worse, a contrary opinion.

@slyborg

Haha, Bluesky Eternal September, coming right up!

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#BlueSky - Jack Dorsey's 14th platform to unify the already existing 13.

@fediversereport Their version of federation isn't compatible with ActivityPub, and last I saw, their design would keep BlueSky as central authority, so any additional servers would be subservient to a central database.

@fediversereport I'm sure this won't lead to a larger amount of bot activity there.

@fediversereport @misc I'm already there and find the sky very difficult to use, or I'd perhaps be more active.

@fediversereport »Error: 404«
lol

Ah, Mastodon’s link parser destroys the URL and writes 2x /blog/ – click directly the URL, not the preview.

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I think it shows poor judgement to make their own federation protocol. Especially since Threads is implementing ActivityPub.

I haven't been able to give away BlueSky invitations in months. The platform sort of sucks.

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I'm pretty sure my instance has preemptively blocked them, as they have threads. I'm fine with that.

Might make a mastodon.social account or something to interact with the people I know there if it ever federates with us.

I know zero people on threads.

@fediversereport If a service requires my phone number, I will not join that service.

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We don't care, and like X, we don't want censored and manipulative social networks here. 👿😠😡