psychothumbstoNews@lemmy.worldEnglish·8 months agocross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldBluesky federation goes live(bsky.social)external-linkarrow-up128arrow-down19message-square10fedilink
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkBluesky federation goes live(bsky.social)psychothumbstoNews@lemmy.worldEnglish·8 months agocross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldmessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareoriginaluciferarrow-up6arrow-down1·8 months agolinkfedilinkyeah i was just reading… the answer is ‘no’, youre either running bluesky or not. youre not building lemmysky and federating, for example. so what good is the protocol if you can only use their client server?
minus-squareFlying Squidarrow-up7arrow-down1·8 months agolinkfedilinkConsidering the alternative is a bunch of Bluesky people commenting on Lemmy, I’ll take it.
minus-squareFlowVoidEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoedit-28 months agolinkfedilinkYou can self-host an instance, which will federate with every other instance. Unlike Mastodon, an instance admin cannot block other instances. So blocking and moderation occurs more commonly at the user level. In a sense, it has even more in common with email than ActivityPub does.
yeah i was just reading… the answer is ‘no’, youre either running bluesky or not.
youre not building lemmysky and federating, for example.
so what good is the protocol if you can only use their
clientserver?Considering the alternative is a bunch of Bluesky people commenting on Lemmy, I’ll take it.
You can self-host an instance, which will federate with every other instance.
Unlike Mastodon, an instance admin cannot block other instances. So blocking and moderation occurs more commonly at the user level. In a sense, it has even more in common with email than ActivityPub does.