Bluesky should just turn on ActivityPub at this point
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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ha, no.. bluesky is not open to federation. they control the only router and do not allow connectivity to routers not controlled by them.
there isnt a single non-bluesky controlled instance that can federate natively with bluesky.
bluesky is just twitter with a little more user-controllable data sourcing. not that theres anything wrong with that, but its certainly not a part of any federation.
e. suggested reading: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
I believe the "free our feeds" people are working to change this though.
And they are either in for one of the following:
- a $30 Million lesson where they learn that they will have to reinvent ActivityPub in order to be "properly" decentralized
- a rug pull where they come up with a second relay like Bluesky but fork to give exclusive access for large institutions and the enterprise.
It's ridiculous they were asking for $30m to do something that ActivityPub already does. Wasted money that could have gone anywhere else
ITT: Fediverse = Ideology, ATproto = real applications
There's been a definite tinge of ideology or at least gatekeeping to some of these responses, but that's to be expected. FOSS has always had a streak of it.
It's a bit ironic to use ActivityPub to say ActivityPub has no real applications, though.