Blueksy's approach to decentralization is very different from ActivityPub but it's definitely decentralized. (Also that article's over a year old, and some things have changed since then.). But, like I say in the article, not everybody is so welcoming!
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Bridgy Fed and Friendica already connect Bluesky to the ActivityPub Fediverse.
It's a good point, maybe I won't add it after all.
Interesting, my first reaction is that I also wouldn't have expected it but as you say there's a lot of room in the Fediverse. In Seven Theses On The Fediverse And The Becoming Of Floss, Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam Abbing talk about the Fediverse as "a site for online agonistic pluralism", and this is a good example - radically different views coexisting.
Mobilizon is a really solid project -- thanks for mentioning it @blaze@feddit.org !
Thanks, I'll include something about Hubzilla's progress ... the proof of concept Faircamp integration is interesting, do you know if anybody's following up on it?
Great point, I'll add that.
Agreed, that would have been a much better title. There's a lot of negativity around Mastodon -- the Twitter migration in 2022 is often described as a "failure". It certainly wasn't a success, but I see it much more as a missed opportunity.
Network effects are certainly a big deal but every social network has to deal with the issue, and some succeed. Addressing some of the reasons for bouncing not only improves retention, but makes it more likely that people recommend it to their friends. So many of the problems from July 2023's Mastodon Is Easy and Fun Except When It Isn’t were problems back in 2017 as well ... how much progress has Mastodon made? Fortunately other fediverse software's making more progress, but it's still frustrating.
There definitely are some great people there. Finding the right instance makes a big difference... unfortunately, almost eerybody starts off on mastodon.social, which for most people isn't a great choice, and don't realize they can move -- and when they do try to move, they lose their posting history which is annoying.
That was a great comment. It's frustrating because the fediverse should be good at making it easy for people to find topics their interested in ... but it doesn't work out that way in practice.
Yeah, Mastodon's interface has a lot of complexities. It drives me crazy when people say "just like email" ... here's the most recent diagram of what posts are visible in your federated timeline.
Agreed that Bluesky's run by a single corporation so it's different than today's ActivityPub Fediverse, but the Fediverse's historical approach to "open federation" isn't the only approach. Even in the ActivityPub world we're seeing more and more experimentation with allow-list federation.