submitted 3 months ago by CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Bluesky, which uses it, has been opened to federation now, and the standard basically just looks better than ActivityPub. Has anyone heard about a project to make a Lemmy-style "link aggregator" service on it?

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[-] misk@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

https://threadsky.app/

Very slow at the moment, probably due to people looking for Reddit alternatives but was fine couple of weeks ago when I first saw it. Seemed okay if you’re okay with AT Proto (it’s not that decentralised really).

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago

Really? In what way?

Digital identities being cryptographic and independent of any one instance is huge all on it's own. The rest of it I understand less clearly, but it looks pretty modular.

[-] gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

See here. Basically, creating a relay for the AT protocol is extremely costly and only possible for big tech companies.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thank you!

TL;DR, the relay bit works as a completely connected network topology, and has the associated quadratic growth issues, which renders it, like you said, hard to host.

Also nasty: Direct messages are just not federated.

Other things are or were at the time of writing janky, but nothing else is quite that egregious. The author is working on a separate project, and recommends this idea as a solution for portable identity on ActivityPub; here's what "object capability" means in the context.