It’s not compatible at all. And bots acting as bridges isn’t compatibility.
As for self hosting an instance that is federated with the official Bluesky instance, you will only be able to do that in your dreams. You can self host your own PDS though.
Bluesky is the most centralized decentralized platform
It’s still for profit, not federated and closed source so honestly I don’t know why it’s being discussed here
closed source
Bluesky is open source.
I don’t know why it’s being discussed here
It is being discussed to see if things have changed.
My bad, I’m not an expert here but it’s weird that it’s open source and yet nobody else can have a bluesky? Like could I download that code and make a bluesky for everyone? If so why has nobody else done it? why is there only one for profit bluesky?
To answer your question though, no nothing has changed.
Free Our Feeds is trying to make this happen
Mrs. Erinaceus loves it, after fleeing Xwitter and being disappointed with Mastodon. However, in this Wired article/interview (which I read some time ago and might not remember all that well), Bluesky’s CEO comes across as being, well, a CEO. Judge for yourself: Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet.
Jay Graber’s background before BlueSky is in Web3 so take that information how you will.
I want her to exploit my means of production so bad, if you know what I mean.
It turned out to be a Twitter clone from ten years ago and I realized I didn’t need that any more. If I didn’t need to reach some people who cannot overcome the hurdle the fediverse proper puts up before being enjoyable, I would not be using it today. But media popularity post-Elon-Twitter and relative ease of setup have given the platform relative heft. But it’s not open and not really federated so it’s masquerading and we don’t really want you know whose money is paying the bills behind the scenes either. If anything, the fediverse can learn from Bluesky a thing or two about onboarding people who cannot be asked to invest the time to make Mastodon enjoyable. It will take time, much more time, to get people, especially non-techy ones, to the new normal of being your own algorithm. I see Bluesky as a stepping stone in that direction that will survive in its own niche.
On the same note, how is the interoperability between threads and the Fediverse nowadays?
Zero, I hope
I remember I blocked threads back then when they started connecting it.
I don’t have Threads or follow anyone from there but sounds a bit… complicated?
It’s just twitter 2.0, may as well be closed source, and it’s a joke to call it decentralized. I’m only on there because the community I keep up with is mostly on there, but the site is literally unusable without the blocklist feature, which of its own is incredibly easy to abuse.
VC financed social media at the start of its enshittification journey. Started interesting with open protocol but seems it has no ambitions of being open.
Deleted my account 6 months ago and haven’t missed it.
Works fine. Most of the artists I followed from twitter moved there. and its quite a nice place.
certainly more hospitable than the nazi platform, that’s for sure.
I’m not saying I’m very knowledgeable but as your asking for the consensus. I think Bluesky is much better than twitter but it doesn’t properly embody the ideals of the fediverse: that is a decentralized network of instances but it really only has one main instance. It’s also heavily viewed as an alternative to twitter, people who like twitter but don’t like X or the way elon musk is running things so the same people who don’t like twitter go to X and therefore the community isn’t so much better.
But who am I to say this I don’t even use twitter mastadon or Bluesky.
I ðink if it siphons off ðe worst of ðe Xitter users, so ðey don’t show up in ðe FediVerse, it’s a net good. A sort of self-imposed, centralized prison.
You ðink? Do you mean þink?
Þanks for ðe spelling correction. I can’t exactly blame autocorrect, can I?
Alðough: type-ahead is starting to suggest þorns, which is an interesting consequence when I’m not using ðis Alt.
First let’s kill X, that’s reason enough to use it for now. At least you’re still supporting more open protocols
used it for a bit but just got bored so deleted my profile.
It never had a chance. There’s no way to make profit selling ads and user data and have it be decentralized. They are conflicting goals.
I’m not saying there aren’t other ways to make a profit on a decentralized platform, but they never said they had any other business model, so we had to assume that the traditional one was it, and we were right.
Bluesky isnt decentralized
I never was a Tweeter, but I joined it when it was new just to hang out with the artists and gamers. I just recently deleted my account. It’s not for me. Becoming too Twitteresque. Smaller Mastodon instances have better communities and more relevant posts for me.
how decentralized is bluesky really?
I keep this link around for this question and curious about others thoughts. I’m basically fine with fediverse alternatives nowadays, I never post much anyways. I’m fine with not joining bluesky and just sticking to activitypub and remain skeptical about AT proto. People much smarter than me that actually build things in this space seem to be skeptical too.
