I would like to give an update on "federation" on Bluesky.
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This is why—although, now Blacksky is letting me "see through" Bluesky's worst moderation decisions, I'm glad, because Bluesky's moderation is weird and arbitrary—I think it's a downside of the network, and Mastodon made the right decision not offering this feature. Fediverse defederation forces a degree of soft group consensus on moderation: it's possible to say "if you're talking to X, I don't want to talk to *you*". On Bluesky we are all ghosts walking through walls and this can't be enforced
Updates: The "beta" appview that was at staging.blacksky.community has now replaced the main blacksky.community site. Translation: As of today Blacksky Algorithms how now cloned every¹ part of the Bluesky server stack and is now top-to-bottom third party (they still integrate with Bluesky's moderation, by choice). They are the first org I know of to succeed at this.
¹ Though, I have no way of knowing for a fact their appview is using atproto.africa instead of the Bluesky relay. That's internal.
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May be a stupid question but I don't know enough about ATProto, ActivityPub or Bluesky infrastructure to be sure
Would it be possible for one of those systems that is forking Bluesky to make it so they use both ATProto and ActivityPub streams so they can be on here without a bridge?
Well there are systems that try to use both. Most notably Bridgy Fed and Wafrn. But none are ATproto based or built from the start on ATproto tech
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