🚨 Want to help build a robust bridge and relays between #ActivityPub & #ATprotocol networks? (
Live only for a few hours - we launched this group late last night - it already has over 40 developers/followers starting to do exactly that.
If you are working on this, or want to, go follow that mastodon-compatible Frendica group & introduce yourself!
@tchambers @activitypubblueskybridge @mmasnick @anildash @manton Before you invest too much energy in this effort check out the Bluesky Terms of Service for using the AT Protocol. Currently they are asserting a unrestricted free-for-all license to any content the touches the AT Protocol (https://staging.bsky.app/support/tos). Seems crazy, but arguably you could be opening the door to giving Bluesky all the Fediverse content. In any case, the #DataProtection issues need to be nailed down.
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> check out the Bluesky Terms of Service for using the AT Protocol
The wording here is unclear on whether these ToS apply to any use of the AT Protocol. I'm guessing it's just ToS for using bsky.social, because any protocol encumbered with this kind of legal baggage is a non-starter. I imagine things will become clearer once the number of instances federating over AT is >1.
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In the meantime, why not explore the AT tech? Discover what it would take to make a functioning bridge, or implement an AT lite in existing fedi apps to allow interactions with AT users on our terms (no spam, no algorithmic manipulation, no mass harvesting of posts or whatever). Worst case scenario, the people doing it waste their time. Even then, they might learn some stuff useful in improving AP.
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