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2024-09-09 23:27:02

I for one welcome Bluesky, the ATmosphere, BTS Army, and millions of Brazilians to the fediverses!
And what better way to do that than with a long post about it?
https://privacy.thenexus.today/bluesky-atmosphere-fediverse/
#bluesky #fediverse #activitypub

2024-08-31 19:39:07

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https://bsky.social/about/bluesky-and-the-at-protocol-usable-decentralized-social-media-martin-kleppmann.pdf discusses Bluesky's approach to federation. A key difference is that their AT Protocol it's a protocol for *public* conversations. There isn't any direct analogy of a fediverse instance (although a AppView is instance-like). One key improvement over today's AP implementations are that the storage layer is separate so you can in principle host your own data (although it's still kind of janky, and only a few hundred people do) and perhaps at some point hosting services will emerge. https://berjon.com/ap-at/ looks at how AP could be implemented on top of AT
@npub18cr…ak0z

2024-08-28 19:55:56

Bluesky introduces anti-toxicity features -- including permission on quote posts
https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-28-2024-anti-toxicity-features
Some of the other highlights:<li>"hiding" replies, meaning they don't show up in the thread (aka conversation) view</li><li>timed word mutes</li><li>seeing where a post has been quoted, and the ability to "detach" a specific quote (so that you can't get to it from the original post)</li><li>notification filtering (somewhat similar to in Mastodon 4.3)</li><li>only showing replies from people you follow in the "following" feed (their equialent of the Home feed) if it's a reply to somebody you also follow (this matches Mastodon's behavior; previously, Bluesky showed all replies from people you follow in the home feed)</li>
All in all, it's serious progress, and builds on their previous work with reply permissions. It'll be interesting to see how #mastodon's upcoming quote boost feature compares.
#bluesky