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Written by Anil Dash on 2025-01-13 at 16:36

This is a monumental day for the future of the social web, though it might not be obvious for a while. Mastodon matures its governance model with a great, solid non-profit https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/ and a coalition of independents push to open up Bluesky's AT Protocol: https://freeourfeeds.com/ These two moves together put the most credible players on solid ground for years to come — and set up the open platforms to enable lots of innovation just when it's needed most.

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Written by 2xfo on 2025-01-13 at 16:43

@anildash

Why should we care about bluesky? I came here to get away from billionaires.

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Written by Anil Dash on 2025-01-13 at 16:53

@RnDanger Because it's an open, interoperable platform with millions of users and interesting apps being built on top of it

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Written by spinbackwards on 2025-01-13 at 17:49

@anildash @RnDanger Does AT support ActivityPub?

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Written by Magnus Ahltorp on 2025-01-13 at 18:13

@spinbackwards @anildash @RnDanger No. It has to be bridged.

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Written by Evan Prodromou on 2025-01-13 at 18:39

@ahltorp @spinbackwards @anildash @RnDanger We have a great bridge, though!

https://fed.brid.gy/

It's run by A New Social https://anew.social/

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Written by Magnus Ahltorp on 2025-01-13 at 18:55

@evan @spinbackwards @anildash @RnDanger Bridges are good when you can’t solve it any other way, but a bridge is like trying to look out the window, and instead of seeing the full 3D landscape, you see all the objects like they’re decals on the window.

If you go to the next window, there is another set of decals there. The tree-shaped decal on both windows represent the same tree in the outside world, but to you they look like two distinct objects. Because you can’t see out the window.

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Written by Magnus Ahltorp on 2025-01-13 at 19:00

@evan This is not a reason to not have bridges. They try to solve the problem as best they can, and I’m thankful that people do that, but it would be better if they weren’t needed. There’s always a loss of fidelity, and the bridge becomes a single point of failure between the systems.

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Toot

Written by 2xfo on 2025-01-13 at 19:30

@ahltorp @evan

I hate bridges. They don't work naturally and i have no interest in seeing them as posts here if they're not posted here.

Just give me a link that works.

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