Pull request to begin to add ActivityPub support to the bluesly PDS (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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This is really big imo.

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[-] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

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 2 points 2 months ago

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 2 points 2 months ago

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 3 points 2 months ago

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 2 points 2 months ago

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

If BSky goes out of business and shuts down their servers, will these continue to function?
Does BSky still have any control at all over moderation?

[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months 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.