When you visit Facebook.com, you see nothing — just a screen asking you to sign up or log in.
Friendica does the same thing.
I prefer a transparent Fediverse — one where, before I decide to sign up and share any details about myself, I can see what kind of community you're running and who’s part of it.
For example, I watched Mstdn.ca for nearly a month before joining. I knew who the staff were, what kind of posts they liked or shared, who appeared to be active, whether the space was fairly moderated, whether there was any drama, if people's privacy was respected, and generally what kind of content was welcomed.
Fedi sites like Friendica lack that transparency. You join and just hope you didn't unknowingly make a mistake.
#Fediverse #Friendica #ActivityPub
#Activitypub #Curious ...
just curious, wondering why did activitypub use json and not something more closer to html (such as xml)?
On a serious note, I’m proud of the work being done at #Blacksky as well as #Blackfedi. Black and Brown folks we don’t need to get caught up in anyone’s protocol & platform wars, life is already tough for us and there’s minimal spaces for us as it is. We should be turning #BlackTwitter into the combined spaces of #ATProto #ActivityPub . We need safe, fun, funny, creative etc spaces for our people. Black and Brown owned digital spaces! Where users can determine their own experiences without being dragged one way or the other regarding algorithms, full text search, quote posts, PM harassment etc I look forward to that day and look forward to contributing to that. #Blacklove #Blackpower #Tech #BlackFediverse
@cloudhunter.co.uk @lwflouisa @mmasnick.bsky.social @Gargron
That's really nice.
But at the end the only thing which matters - to avoid situations with the @mississippifreepress.org - is how many users(!) are not at the mercy of #bluesky's decisions.
If this number is not far above 50% then it won't be decentralized in practice.
And btw, why not integrating #bluesky with the #fediverse? #bluesky could support #activitypub in addition to #atproto.
@mmasnick.bsky.social @ikuturso
All @Gargron was doing is to point out that real decentralization matters, and that the #fediverse has solved that problem - descentralized in control and jurisdictions - no single authority could block Mississippi in the #fediverse.
Isn't this a good thing? Are you really sure you disagree with that?
What about learning from that or integrating with that (e.g. via #activitypub) instead of dismissing it?
Now that they have private chats I assume those are excluded.
> Note that the export endpoint intentionally does not require authentication: content in a user's repository is public (much like a public website), and anybody can download it from the web.
I’ve complained there needs to be an easier way to move my posts to another ActivityPub platform.
But I’ll shush now after reading about Bluesky’s data export process. Good gracious.
https://docs.bsky.app/blog/repo-export
@mmasnick.bsky.social @Gargron
Isn't agreeing on facts the ìnitial foundation for working together on something?
And what about making social networks interoperable instead of competing islands and all these emotions against "the others"?
What about #bluesky supporting also #activitypub in addition to #atproto to interconnect with #mastodon, #threads and the whole #fediverse?
Ideally the NIH syndrome and emotions don't work against interoperability of socual networks.
Sorry, but this not true. @Gargron was correct in everything he was saying.
While #bluesky centrally blocked #mississippi nobody in the #mastodon world has the ability to centrally block Mississippi.
While techincally #atproto supports decentralization as well as #activitypub , in practice basically all #atproto users are on the mercy of centralized #bluesky. The #mastodon world is really decentral: Decision making, jurisdictions etc.
One of the biggest benefits of distributed social media like Mastodon is that this sort of thing wouldn't be possible.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/bluesky-blocks-service-in-mississippi-over-age-assurance-law/
Said this to a Linux friend of mine as a reply, and I'm gonna say it again but as a standalone post:
ATProto/Bluesky is a bit like Wayland. It's a very complex solution, but in the long term it's gonna be like a well-oiled machine, and ActivityPub/the Fediverse is like X11 - it's made mainly for one singular purpose, and was cobbled together for other purposes and features.
But with the attitude and conspiracy-throwing towards Bluesky from fedi's loudest evangelists, it's actually much more like XLibre than bog-standard X11.
#ATproto #Bluesky #Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Linux
I’ve been posting on #tiktok for a while. And they are starting to notice it’s being censored. Putting ex-Israel military as head of it’s hate speech division was the icing on the cake.
Now would be a time for the #fediverse to step in, boldly. Many of these people want a robust, uncensorable social network, not just dances & follows.
But they do want a video editor!
What’s the plan? @dansup with Loops.video? Convince #upscrolled to join #activitypub ?