Many Europeans want to be free of American and Chinese Big Tech apps.
Open, decentralized protocols like ActivityPub (powering Mastodon) and AT Protocol (powering Bluesky) may be the key to a new sovereign social media infrastructure.
https://newpublic.substack.com/p/the-future-of-social-media-may-be
Two glowing butterlies 🦋 in front of the European Union 🇪🇺 & American 🇺🇸 flags (image created using AI)
So, unless you have been living under a digital rock or distracted by wannabe dictators demanding ownership of allied lands, you probably missed hearing about a new European social network called W (which was highlighted at the Davos […]
https://darnell.tv/2026/01/22/bluesky-w-social/#Fediverse users worked together to make sure #Blacksky has a #Wikipedia page, arising from the need to educate users here about the project, starting in about September last year (https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/115166596826618536 )
I was sort of trying to cheerlead but you-all are who actually built the page! 🙏 ❤️
thanks to @Anne_Delong https://musician.social/@Anne_Delong/115321834133067505 among others.
It's ironic that this page went live right as people are breaking their bridged connections to Bluesky because of ICE getting verified there +
Technical details are largely above my paygrade, but it's interesting that also today, Blacksky is running an appview of its own, per @mcc (linking out to Blacksky's Rudy Frasier)
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115917963359245981
Maybe there will be a way to stay bridged to Blacksky while remaining (ahem) defederated from Bluesky, from instances over here?
(mcc's 🧵 gives some back story here, and it [the thread not the story] begins in... September of last year)
Wish I knew more about the reason for this post from Eugen Rochko, although we can guess:
"I will be opting my account out of the #Bluesky bridge next week. If you follow me from Bluesky (I think there are about 3.9K of you) and want to continue seeing my posts you will need to get an account on the fediverse. Cheers."
Last year there were periods of time when I stopped sending my blog posts to the fediverse. So that’s similar, right? Maybe. Bridgy Fed is an unusual case because of how dramatic the opt-in / opt-out story unfolded.
A Response to Tim Chambers’s 2026 Predictions
Tim Chambers' 2026 predictions may not fully consider what Fediverse users actually need.
Does the #Bluesky bridge thing use some kind of odd content-type when requesting profile data? I'm seeing these errors in my logs when my server tries to retrieve posts (as part of my reply retrieval functions):
[2025-12-09T00:59:33Z ERROR enigmatick::retriever] Failed to fetch object from remote. URL: https://bsky.brid.gy/convert/ap/at://did:plc:oofa3qqoiszsmajbigfqskqv/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7egmddbwk2h, Status: 502 Bad Gateway, Body: <!doctype html>
<html lang=en>
<title>502 Bad Gateway</title>
<h1>Bad Gateway</h1>
<p>Couldn't fetch https://enigmatick.social/user/jdt as ActivityStreams 2: Couldn't decode as JSON</p>
If I'm reading that right, my retriever is failing because the bridge is trying to retrieve my profile and can't convert it to JSON. But I verified that my profile is provided as JSON for requests with these Accept header types:
application/jsonapplication/activity+jsonapplication/ld+jsonapplication/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams…so I can't figure out what it's complaining about. I'll need to watch my varnish logs to see if I can capture one of the requests live from that perspective.
Does the #Bluesky bridge thing use some kind of odd content-type when requesting profile data? I'm seeing these errors in my logs when my server tries to retrieve posts (as part of my reply retrieval functions):
[2025-12-09T00:59:33Z ERROR enigmatick::retriever] Failed to fetch object from remote. URL: https://bsky.brid.gy/convert/ap/at://did:plc:oofa3qqoiszsmajbigfqskqv/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7egmddbwk2h, Status: 502 Bad Gateway, Body: <!doctype html>
<html lang=en>
<title>502 Bad Gateway</title>
<h1>Bad Gateway</h1>
<p>Couldn't fetch https://enigmatick.social/user/jdt as ActivityStreams 2: Couldn't decode as JSON</p>
If I'm reading that right, my retriever is failing because the bridge is trying to retrieve my profile and can't convert it to JSON. But I verified that my profile is provided as JSON for requests with these Accept header types:
application/jsonapplication/activity+jsonapplication/ld+jsonapplication/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams…so I can't figure out what it's complaining about. I'll need to watch my varnish logs to see if I can capture one of the requests live from that perspective.
Das ActivityPub Plugin – Eine Bridge zu Bluesky
Seit der Version 7.2 des ActivityPub Plugins ist es möglich mit dem Blogprofil anderen Accounts im Fediverse zu folgen. (Eine sehr ausführliche Anleitung zur den Funktionen des AktivityPub Plugins findest du hier.)Eine Art Dashboard zum Lesen und Reagieren auf die geteilten Beiträge dieser Accounts fehlt noch.Dennoch kann diese Funktion auch jetzt bereits einen Nutzen bringen und zwar in […]
https://bunte-kuechenabenteuer.de/b/5Rm
#ActivityPub #ActivityPubPlugin #Blogbeitrag #Blogger #Bluesky #bridge #Foodblog #Wordpress
Das ActivityPub Plugin – Eine Bridge zu Bluesky
Seit der Version 7.2 des ActivityPub Plugins ist es möglich mit dem Blogprofil anderen Accounts im Fediverse zu folgen. (Eine sehr ausführliche Anleitung zur den Funktionen des AktivityPub Plugins findest du hier.)Eine Art Dashboard zum Lesen und Reagieren auf die geteilten Beiträge dieser Accounts fehlt noch.Dennoch kann diese Funktion auch jetzt bereits einen Nutzen bringen und zwar in […]
https://bunte-kuechenabenteuer.de/b/5Rm
#ActivityPub #ActivityPubPlugin #Blogbeitrag #Blogger #Bluesky #bridge #Foodblog #Wordpress
Sunday Paper – Mac Open Web, ActivityPub, BlueSky Patent, WordPress, Social Web Foundation
Here are a few bits of text I read recently.
Sunday Paper – Mac Open Web, ActivityPub, BlueSky Patent, WordPress, Social Web Foundation
Here are a few bits of text I read recently.
No I will not be trying #Bluesky. Even if it were technically perfect, I know who is doing or funding the development and so I know what direction it will go in.
Even though W3C is a less than ideal organisation and the ActivityPub specification is unmaintained abandonware, I think open standards are the best chance of having a habitable unenshitified internet in the future.
Want to try OPEN social media?
The bridge exists here on Bluesky 🌉
Just follow @ap.brid.gy and connect to a wider world of social media. It's that simple.
Bridging the gap
The fediverse aims for a truly decentralized, interoperable social web, yet the landscape is still fragmented. Bridgy Fed helps close those gaps by letting ActivityPub-enabled WordPress sites form real two-way connections with networks like Bluesky. With the ActivityPub plugin activated, you can link your blog to Bluesky in a few clicks. After that, posts, follows, likes, and replies flow natively between the two worlds.
@ Anuj Ahooja This makes me wonder if a decentralised, anyone-can-host-it third-party bridge that's only a bridge would be feasible.
Of course, it'd be the easiest to integrate such a bridge directly into Fediverse server software. But we've only got so many multi-protocol Fediverse server applications right now already, and the only one that's still occasionally adding new protocols or even a bridge is Friendica. It is therefore the only Fediverse server software that can connect to Bluesky without Bridgy Fed.
CC: @ A New Social
# Long # LongPost # CWLong # CWLongPost # FediMeta # FediverseMeta # CWFediMeta # CWFediverseMeta # Fediverse # Friendica # Bluesky
Bridging the gap
The fediverse aims for a truly decentralized, interoperable social web, yet the landscape is still fragmented. Bridgy Fed helps close those gaps by letting ActivityPub-enabled WordPress sites form real two-way connections with networks like Bluesky. With the ActivityPub plugin activated, you can link your blog to Bluesky in a few clicks. After that, posts, follows, likes, and replies flow natively between the two worlds.
Is Bluesky being betrayed by it's left-lean? Or are we just forgetting our manners online?
It's been over a month since my last blog post (oops), but here are my thoughts...
forbetter.ghost.io/is-bad-behav... #SocialMedia #Bluesky #Echo
Is Bad Behaviour Spoiling the ...
