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This is really big imo.

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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago

This is big. Bluesky is getting lots of traction with normies who want off Twitter. Mastodon and pleroma and pixelfed all about to become much more discoverable

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Watch then deny it cos it will threaten their market capture lol

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

They'll say something like "can't handle the scale"

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You shouldn't expect full interoperability with this alone! At most, you should expect that your public posts get shared with your followers on Mastodon (i.e. an outbox)

fart noises

[–] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the benefit of Bluesky being totally centralized, not built with any capability for federation: When they decide to add some, they can hardly fail to see that it's best to go with ActivityPub.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thats completely untrue :) .

app.wafrn.net is a separate app that connects to bluesky, atproto.africa is an alternate relay, deer.social is an alt appview.

You can use bluesky without relying on bluesky now.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hmm, let's see if I remember the terminology correctly:

Client apps have nothing to do with it, obviously.

Alternate appviews have nothing to do with it, except in that they'd presumably need to work with whatever form of atproto federation exists, if any did.

Alternate relays aren't federated unless there's some protocol for routing messages between them — such as ActivityPub.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So, bluesky works differently to fedi.

A PDS stores your posts/comments/likes/blocks/articles/whatever. These all get crawled and saved to a relay.
An appview connects to a relay and sorts through all the posts, and indexes them.
They handle all the interactions, rather than passing messages between servers.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Let me just ask the less technical and more important questions:

  1. If BSky goes out of business and shuts down their servers, will these continue to function?
  2. Does BSky still have any control at all over moderation?
[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

If bsky goes out of business and shuts down their servers, will these continue to function?

Yes, but there will be far less people since everyone's on bsky.social. Kinda like mastodon.social.

Does bsky still have any control at all over moderation?

Great question! Bluesky has individual moderation services you can subscribe to, and these hide/label posts for you.
bsky has no control over moderation if you are not on their servers, and you are not subscribed to their moderation service.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Right... it did take me a minute to remember how the relays work. Well, when there are a few hundred of them we'll see how it goes.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a good few small ones.

It can work without relays anyway, an appview can crawl PDSes directly.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Really? I thought there were only two. How are the small ones able to afford the bandwidth to monitor everything from every PDS?

[–] wisdomchicken@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

because hosting a full-network relay is super cheap, including bandwidth. there are multiple people who are running full-network relays (monitoring and relaying everything from every PDS) for less than 30USD per month

https://fediversereport.com/atmosphere-report-116/

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well that's an interesting development, which people seem to have begun experimenting with in the past few weeks. Of course for the time being I suppose it's made somewhat easier for the relays by 99% of the users being hosted on the small collection of official bsky.network PDS servers.

Some more discussion of it in which there may be hints as to how atproto people might slowly progress towards reinventing some of the things we take for granted on the fediverse.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This news probably deserve its own post

[–] wisdomchicken@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i think the main takeaway is that the fediverse has hugely overindexed on relays being this big huge centralising force in the atproto network. And thats simply not true at all. The flipside of that is that relays also dont really matter much either. All they do is simply aggregating from a distributed network of data storage into a single firehose. Its really cool that you can do that for super cheap. but its also just a small part of the entire network architecture. like, atproto relays are not CDNs, for example, and video CDNs are expensive to run.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Definitely. Posting https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lo7a2a4qxg2l as its own post would probably help

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

The main centralised part of bluesky right now is their decentralised identifiers right now.

DID:PLC is completely centralised. Its not actually a requirement for a did to be decentralised.

plc.directory is the only registry for them right now.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's why I said small ones, they don't crawl the entire network.

There is the freeourfeeds one coming soon.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If they don't crawl the entire network then most of the network cannot contact them at all? Which makes it ... not really a network. That's where federation would come in.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

It does federate though, federation is multiple nodes in a network cooperating, which they do.
HTTP is a network even though it doesn't (usually) federate.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 8 points 3 weeks ago

Really cool honestly. How big it is is probably predicated on if Bluesky enabled it for PDS'es on bsky.social.