#atproto

The latest FOSS Academic post is "Standards War?":

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/03/05/standardsWar.html

In which I contrast the fact that @iftas is shutting down some of its services against the advent of "Free Our Feeds," and I speculate that maybe we're seeing an ATProto/ActivityPub standards war.

#FOSSAcademic #ATproto #ActivityPub #standards

New: Last Week in the ATmosphere

The #ATProto tech news:

- Sync 1.1 is a proposal to make relays cheaper to run
- Multiple PDS browsers now show backlinks, making them a new type of entity in the network
- #Bluesky has 2 new vacancies to expand their T&S team

https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-atmosphere-2025feb-d/

Our friends at Flipboard are organizing a "Fediverse House" at SXSW in Austin, TX, March 9 and 10.

They are putting together a great program with people such as @pluralistic, @molly0xfff, @mmasnick,
@evan, @pcottle and @pfrazee.com !

If you are at SXSW, check it out!

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse-house/

#fediverse #sxsw #activitypub #atproto #socialweb

Companies should follow the law, right?

If so, then #ActivityPub is better than #ATproto (and other platforms) for #FreeSpeech. The structure of #bluesky requires the relay be able to block stuff like CSAM but the govt where the relay is located could force whoever is running it to use this capacity to block anything. The entire network would be unable to access whatever that govt decided, no matter the locations of the people who posted the content or those who want to see it. #SocialWeb

This week's news for #Bluesky and the ATmosphere

- A lack of action from mods about well-known anti-trans writer joining Bluesky leads to community uproar
- More information about Bluesky's upcoming subscription service
- Multiple new #atproto apps have launched

https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-atmosphere-2412-b/

Last Week in #Bluesky and the ATmosphere

This week's news:
- continued calls verification on bluesky
- more ai datasets with bluesky posts appear
- book reviews on #ATProto with Skylights
- Lexicon.community for devs to collaborate on lexicons

and a ton of links

https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-atmosphere-2412-a/

Christine Lemmer-Webber, ActivityPub co-editor and founder of @spritely, recently answered the rhetorical question, 'How decentralized is Bluesky really?'

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

Christine has the soul of a diplomat and the technical chops of a master, so her nuanced take is worth the read.

TL;DR

"Bluesky and ATProto are not meaningfully decentralized, and are not federated either. However, this is not to say that Bluesky is not achieving something useful"

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#BlueSky #ATProto #Spritely

#Leaf, #ATProto and #ActivityPub.

https://blog.muni.town/leaf-atproto-activitypub/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Slowly while working on our #leafprotocol we've realized that it shares a lot of similarities with both #activitypub and #atproto.

We just finished a blog post that explains how Leaf compares with its alternatives:

https://blog.muni.town/leaf-atproto-activitypub/

Thinking #BlueSky and #ATProto are the same thing is like thinking Mastodon and #ActivityPub are the same thing.