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Interesting things are happing in the Atmosphere (the network built out around Bluesky and their ATProto protocol).
"With Acorn, Blacksky is providing access to these same tools to other communities that want to build their own spaces on the open social web."
#news #technology #TechNews #atmosphere #ATProto #bluesky #blacksky #BlackskyAcorn
It looks more independent communities are coming to the Atmosphere.
"Latinsky and Medsky, brought to you by [Blacksky's] Acorn system, coming VERY soon..."
https://bsky.app/profile/richferro.com/post/3mltltjudfs2m
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The post also mentions that more updates will be shared by https://bsky.app/profile/latinsky.social and https://bsky.app/profile/medsky.network in the future.
And medsky.social as well.
https://medsky.social/profile/medsky.network/post/3mmu63hopsk27
#medsky #atmosphere #atproto #bluesky #blacksky #BlackskyAcorn
@stefan I'm wondering how all these offshoots will handle moderation, since BlackSky isn't supposedly following BS moderation to the letter if they disagree, but apparently BS can override them on the "array" /protocol level to where even overriding the BS mods decision will be overriden by BS themselves:
https://fuckaas.space/@fuckfetish/116604223649776627
That is, independent from Bluesky the company, if you want to argue that these communities will "depend" on Blacksky's own infrastructure instead.
It's called cooperation and sharing of resources. It's a good thing!
I know people here like to quibble about "how decentralized is Bluesky, really", but I've been saying for a few months now that it's time to move past this rhetoric, and focus on making the #fediverse better instead.
@stefan My intent has always been to showcase the things that the fediverse can do that nothing else can. There's a lot of work right now to open up relays and get everyone onto a 'fediverse firehose' for 'content discovery' reasons and all that, and I'm not averse to that.
But I also think that there's ways of federating, ways of grouping (allowlist-federation and followers-only, for instance) that is only a fediverse thing right now.
And I'm still working on building something much more rudimentary than Acorn, but essentially software to try to organize community reporting, monitoring, and feed composition (groups/networks) on the fediverse where followers-only becomes a delivery mechanism for semi-private discussion groups, where we opt-in to circles of discovery at both a server federation level (allowlists) and at a group level.
This is all part of what I'm trying to build in Pelago, to fill a gap and highlight a unique way of connecting across the fediverse.
And with the FIRES protocol, we now have a means to distribute follow lists (starter packs) and allowlists, not just 'blocklists', we have the ability to offer recommendations beyond just 'silence', along with community labeling, and ideally allows some of those federation/blocking decisions to pass to the user when possible.
The 'smallweb' DIY nature of the fediverse is what I love, not the large-scale projects. The ability for 10 people to chip in $1/mo and essentially host their own instance (GTS or Snac or something in that scenario, most likely, not Mastodon).
The affordability of controlling the 'means of posting' means that this is truly a community project. That's what I like about it. It's an experiment in realtime we're all building together.
@stefan I just want everyone to get off twitter
@technicat Honestly, it would be funny if Blacksky implemented ActivityPub support for themselves and all the communities using their infrastructure, and then Bluesky just went away.
https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/rsky/issues/125
And then Twitter + people formerly on Bluesky moved to Blacksky's infrastructure.
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