@hildabast @PLOS I'm #transgender and left #Bluesky after 2 years there earlier this month. I've used the #fediverse in some capacity since 2017 and love it. I went to Bluesky to see #ATProto progress, tried #Blacksky servers which failed miserably for me and a ton of other users in reliability (Couldn't post, blank feeds).

So now i'm back here but bridged to follow some Bluesky accounts. I think if more accounts there bridge that will help people feel more inclined to come back.

icymi, in the Matrix State of the Union they said they didn't plan on pursuing decentralized social media, but they do hope to make it easier for those ecosystems to use Matrix so they don't have to reinvent what Matrix has already done

Hey can anyone who edits #Wikipedia take look at this draft entry for #Blacksky and initiate the steps to publish it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Blacksky

Mastodonians put this together over the past month (https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/115166596826618536; https://musician.social/@Anne_Delong/115321834133067505 ; some of the thread is broken) but I don't have a way to publish. TIA!

#ATProto

icymi, in the Matrix State of the Union they said they didn't plan on pursuing decentralized social media, but they do hope to make it easier for those ecosystems to use Matrix so they don't have to reinvent what Matrix has already done

@Mer__edith

looking at your replies to replies here that seem to make sense to me (especially re decentralization), you're telling them they don't know what they are talking about. well I definitely don't.

like with debates re #ATproto and #ActivityPub, I have thoughts but I know that we really need to see the experts debate each other somehow. I don't think it happens enough. so I'd say the same re #signal and #matrix etc.

Okay, so, I finally built that OAuth Client ID Metadata Service that I've been talking about on an off, and also verified it works with bluesky: cimd-service.fly.dev I did have to change my application_type to native to use localhost redirect URIs, which was annoying. #oauth #atproto

https://cimd-service.fly.dev/

WIRED: Would you welcome president Trump if he was debating joining bluesky?

@jay.bsky.team: Yeah, #bluesky is for everyone.

...

I understand that #ATproto should be for everyone, but decentralization means you don't have to allow everyone on your server. They can run their own and everyone can decide how to deal with that. The company doesn't need to make these decisions. She knows this.

I doubt @Gargron would welcome him on #mastodon infrastructure.

https://bsky.app/profile/homelandgov.bsky.social/post/3m3g7vwkokk2i

@mackuba

So... I guess @Sascha is asking if such an arrangement is possible in case of #ATProto, either at the level of the PDS, or at some other level.

Can a user simultaneously have more than one “official” copy of their data (posts + connections + blogs + ...), with all the clones mirroring new activites on any one of them? And if one of them shuts down or gets blocked, will the others continue functioning uninterrupted?

If not in practice today, is this possible in theory?

@mackuba

Not sure, but to put this differently, I think @Sascha is asking if #ATProto has anything similar to nomadic identity, provided by Mike Macgirvin’s Hubzilla, (streams), and Forte.

https://medium.com/@tamanning/nomadic-identity-brought-to-you-by-hubzilla-67eadce13c3b

(continues)

@Sascha If I understand correctly, just yesterday (!) this kind of functionality has been added to PDS Moover, the most popular third party migration UI tool, so this might now be much easier than what's described in that blog post above: https://retrobailey.leaflet.pub/3m3ntnjv3hc2x

#bluesky #atproto

@Sascha For the ideal/normal scenario, the old PDS needs to be active & cooperating. It *may* be possible to get out in an "adversarial" scenario (PDS dead or gone rogue), but you need to have a recent backup and you need to have set an additional access key that you control up front while you still could (which is not a default).

There's a (technical) blog post about this here: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/adversarial-pds-migration.html

#bluesky #atproto

Some Bluesky/ATproto fans keep insisting it's a federated network, but it's just not true.

Bluesky/ATproto is centralised, almost all users are on Bluesky corporation's infrastructure and there is no way to have independent infrastructure:

https://plus.flux.community/p/banning-controversy-reveals-blueskys

"Despite Fraser’s efforts to implement his own PDS, Relay, and App View, however, Blacksky still remains partially dependent upon Bluesky’s application server"

"Blacksky’s continued dependency on Bluesky came into focus on Sunday after a Blacksky user suddenly found himself unable to view his own posts on the alternative site."

(via @rysiek )

#Bluesky #ATproto

Fediverse Report 138 - this week's #fediverse news

- a closer look at the Tumblr-like platform Wafrn, which connects to both #activitypub and #atproto. Their latest update allows people to migrate their #bluesky account to wafrn, joining the fediverse while staying connected to their bluesky network
- @loops is getting closer to joining the fediverse

Read at: https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-138/

Missed @ben's keynote at this year's @fediforum? Here's the full transcript. "The opportunity right now isn't to build a better Twitter or to provide a nice place for people who care about Linux to chat: it's to build infrastructure that vulnerable people can actually use to organize, to communicate safely, and to build community. But we can only do that if we're building with those communities from day one, not building for them based on our assumptions about what they need."

https://flip.it/Xs9Lur

#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Community #CommmunityBuilding #FediForum #Fediverse #Media #ActivityPub #ATProto #Protocols #Technology #Tech

Missed @ben's keynote at this year's @fediforum? Here's the full transcript. "The opportunity right now isn't to build a better Twitter or to provide a nice place for people who care about Linux to chat: it's to build infrastructure that vulnerable people can actually use to organize, to communicate safely, and to build community. But we can only do that if we're building with those communities from day one, not building for them based on our assumptions about what they need."

https://flip.it/Xs9Lur

#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Community #CommmunityBuilding #FediForum #Fediverse #Media #ActivityPub #ATProto #Protocols #Technology #Tech