Michael J BurgessAT Protocol Overview
Learn what AT Protocol is, how Bluesky uses it, and why it matters for identity, portability, moderation, and the open social web.
Stefan BohacekRE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116204764577950180
Some really great updates in Mastodon's latest Trunk & Tidbits blog post, including, from the W3C Social Web working group notes, a note on LOLA, a "proposal for live online account portability between two ActivityPub servers".
https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola
https://fediforum.org/2024-09/session/3-a/
#mastodon #fediverse #TrunkAndTidbits #LOLA #AccountPortability
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)Matrix's statement on the recent Discord announcement and recent challenges with age verification…
https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/welcome-discord/
Account portability would be a great thing. Mastodon's portability isn't perfect, it has some notable limitations, but it's nice you can at least take a number of things with you across servers as your needs dictate.
People need to be able to move around. No system should be a prison, and platforms where we can move if we need to are exactly what the world needs right now.
Christian Peach
chromodynamicAccount Portability and Cryptographic Signing
Strypey"I love seeing people like BlueSky try things with AT Protocol where it has true account portability across servers ..."
#RyanBarrett, 2024
https://flipboard.video/w/2Jj46hJaUQQG5TuiBYi9TR
Well ... not really. It solves the problem by getting rid of independent servers. Replacing them with portable account islands ("PDS"), that are totally dependent on a connection with a Titter-scale platform ("Relay" + "AppView") to do anything.
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Building Bridges to the Fediverse, with Ryan Barrett
Composable moderation is one of the things ATProto/BlueSky gets right, along with account portability between data stores. I wonder how much of this can be added to fediverse software using the Zot creator's FEPs? Which I assume are being implemented in his new project called Forte;
https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte
#fediverse #ComposableModeration #ATProto #BlueSky #AccountPortability #Zot #FEP #Forte
birdbrained 
here's a somewhat neat idea - you know how the #fediverse has this idea of the "Move" activity, the one that gets sent out to announce you're moving to a different server when you do an acct migration?
...wouldn't it be neat if - upon receiving such a "Move" activity - the receiving server just,, automatically started displaying all of the posts it has from your old account, right on your new account?
you don't even need to copy or modify all the old activities or anything!! just keep some kind of "account migration history" or something like that! and then - when queried by a client for the statuses of an account - just return all known posts of all of the accounts in that history!
it's not quite a full migration of your data, but it's kinda?? better than nothing?? it's basically what #nostr is doing, too, afaik.
it's not entirely my idea, it's kind of a half-assed compromise of what @/[email protected] proposed in their blog post: https://www.nova-prime.net/social%20media/2024/07/22/mastodon-immortal.html
still, though!! might try to see if I could add something like that into akkoma, maybe!!
Wizards Anonymous#ATProtocol / #Bluesky & #ActivityPub / #Mastodon #federation differences: global conversation (non local-server based with #remote #content only brought in from follows); #decentralized user account not bound to specific #host; user-composable #moderation lists not tied to server, offsetting need for #defederation; user-composable #feeds/ #algorithms, not tied to #servers; and #accountportability, without need to initiate by server, protecting users from #rogue #admins or server dissapearing.
M@rs ☭Правильно ли я понимаю, что основной минус #ActivityPub в том что он обречён быть маленьким, ведь если допустить, что какая-нибудь Ким Кардашьян заглянет в какой-либо инстанс, приведя с собой миллионы активных "фоловеров", то сервак упадёт...
следующий минус, в невозможности переноса своих данных и приходится копировать себя, оставляя заметку о неактивности прежнего акаунта
#AccountPortability
#Fediverse #Bluesky #AT #ATProto #ATProtocol