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?

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      12·
      9 days ago

      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.
      • MysticKetchup@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        9 days ago

        It’s ridiculous they were asking for $30m to do something that ActivityPub already does. Wasted money that could have gone anywhere else

      • jackalope@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        There are important features that ATPro has that activity pub doesn’t. I’d prefer activity pub be the winner but they really need to improve some things. Namely, identity. Bluesky identity is more portable.

        • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          We still don’t need ATProto for that. ActivityPods solves that.

          ActivityPub itself is built around the principle that the server owns your identity: the best you can do is abandon an identity (i.e, your actor URL) and tell everyone else (via the Move Activity) that you are adopting a new identity.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Yep. What do you think the chances are you could write something that does the job of the router and app view, but in a totally off-standard, more point-to-point way?

        In the meanwhile, it’s just a matter of bridging, I guess.