Chris Trottier

I'm hearing rumours of devs furiously working on ActivityPub/AT protocol bridges.

Meaning that you may soon be able to send a post from Mastodon to Bluesky and vice versa.

@fediversenews

Apr 29, 2023 at 11:48pmWeb
Show threadChris TrottierApr 30, 2023
Someone really should call the ActivityPub/AT protocol bridge “Toot Skeet”.
Show threadRufus J. CooterApr 30, 2023
@atomicpoet 10/10 no notes, pure chef kiss emoji
Show threadTim ChambersApr 30, 2023

@atomicpoet

"TootSkeet" is - I have to admit - the perfect name for that.

Show threadBen RamseyApr 30, 2023
@tchambers @atomicpoet No
Show threadBen RamseyApr 30, 2023

@tchambers @atomicpoet Speaking of bridging, I started hacking on something today that I hope can aid others in building bridges.

https://phpc.social/@ramsey/110285996771355263

Ben Ramsey :elephpant_rainbow: (@[email protected])

I decided to play around with the AT Protocol, so I put together a very rough & very early #PHP library to play around with the concepts. If you're interested, check it out, & I'd love to have others contribute to round it out and make it full-featured. Ultimately, I’d love this library to be a starting point for working on some #ActivityPub / #ATProtocol bridging. https://github.com/socialweb-php/atproto

PHP Community on Mastodon
Show threadTim ChambersApr 30, 2023

@ramsey @atomicpoet

Very cool: checking this out!

Show threadTim ChambersApr 30, 2023

@ramsey @atomicpoet

(LOL)

Show threadBill VinsonApr 30, 2023

@atomicpoet Not sure yet if a bridge will matter to me at all, but that name... woah... solid groan from over here 😉

BTW, thanks for keeping updates flowing on BlueSky. I'm happy enough here to not really be interested, but at minimum I'd always like to re-consider previous decisions based on what others are doing to ensure the best choices were made.

Show threadAlexander K.Apr 30, 2023
@atomicpoet Perfection.
Show threadClayton SlaughterMay 1, 2023
@atomicpoet 🎵🎶 toot skeets,
toot skeats,
a toot of a skeet
in the form of a bridge,
toot skeets,
toot skeets
a bridgeable tootable post. 🎵🎶
Show threadPaisley P. Peinforte ♟️Apr 29, 2023
@atomicpoet @[email protected]

Good. I want to stay on the Fediverse but I do want to be able to talk to people there (who aren't horrible).
Show threadBrianApr 29, 2023
@atomicpoet if Bluesky were to allow that. When asked they said they had no plans for that
Show threadJesus CovaApr 30, 2023
@beatzai @atomicpoet They don't need to build it. We could have an app that talks with both protocols and inserts the posts in your timelines chronologically
Show threadChris TrottierApr 30, 2023
@beans @beatzai You definitely could.
Show threadDanny DragonApr 29, 2023
@atomicpoet @fediversenews Oh god, I can't wait to block Bluesky
Show threadAlienKnightApr 29, 2023
@atomicpoet @fediversenews I sorta hope not. I want nothing to do with Bluesky and Jack Dorsey
Show threadMatthew (Moved to blahaj.zone)Apr 29, 2023
@atomicpoet @[email protected] I thought Jack said he hated decentralized platfrom like Mastodon or am I getting confused by people from Bluesky
Show threadEssem Apr 30, 2023
@atomicpoet could be interesting, I really hope they set post visibility to unlisted and do some stuff to limit the load on APub instances though
Show threadVictoriaApr 30, 2023
@atomicpoet @fediversenews that’s awesome! I can’t wait to quote boost that one guy complaining about federation
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Apr 30, 2023
@atomicpoet @fediversenews Mastodon will quickly regret it if they do.
Show threadChristopherApr 30, 2023
@atomicpoet @[email protected]
I'm hearing the AT TOS grants BlueSky perpetually licences to basically anything that touches it. How are bridges going to deal with that?

RE:

RE: https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/110284935466994090
Mastodon Migration (@[email protected])

OK, it's getting late, so here is the insane overreach that #Bluesky are attempting: Not only do their Terms of Service grant them a limitless, free-for-all, forever license to all your content for using their application (Bluesky). They are taking, get this, a limitless, free for all, forever license for anything that touches their AT protocol. And they imagine a future where all social media runs on their protocol. Isn't that rich? 4/4 #ContentLicense #DataProtection

Mastodon
Show threadPlay Ball and Fight FascistsApr 30, 2023
@atomicpoet
That would be nice, I have no desire to join BlueSky but it would be great to be able to follow folks from there over here.
Show threadEricApr 30, 2023
@atomicpoet
Looking forward to configuring my webserver to return a 418 to requests from those bridges. 😜 🫖
Show threadLoukas (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️Apr 30, 2023
@atomicpoet @fediversenews thank goodness. I was going to ask whether it's possible to have a meta-protocol to federate the federations and was worried it was a silly question.
Show threadMike MacgirvinApr 30, 2023
We've been doing that since the dawn of the fediverse. We once federated with Facebook and Google and Twitter for instance and there are still versions of my software which federate with email and to a limited extent RSS feeds. The Nomad protocol (was called Zot) intentionally allows participants from other networks. ActivityPub doesn't. It requires you to have an inbox and a URL for your actor ID and most servers require a public key for fetching things. So there's a higher bar for compliance to be seen as an integrated participant in both networks. This is also why my current work doesn't support Diaspora - it's compatible with Zot but not with ActivityPub.  This is somewhat problematic because you see people "talking to themselves" when they're actually talking to somebody on another network that your software (which I'm assuming is Mastodon) can't see.
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 1, 2023

@mike @fediversenews

Very interesting.

Besser the question, why did we defederate from these corporate #SM sites?

Show threadSasha FoxMay 1, 2023
@atomicpoet @fediversenews That sounds cool.