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Does BlueSky now have ActivityPub support?
The Fediverse is growing: After Threads, Bluesky can also be linked to Mastodon

First Threads accounts can be opened for Mastodon, now this is also possible - even in both directions - with Bluesky. This makes interesting scenarios possible.

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Ok, so it works, but it more or less hacked tohether and not officially supported. BlueSky still wants to have its walled garfen.
Strictly speaking it’s not a walled garden for not being compatible with activitypub, it’s just a different protocol. The infrastructure is open source, but some critical parts (the relay) are still run only by bsky pbc with no clear way to switch to a competitor.

The infrastructure is open source, but some critical parts (the relay) are still run only by bsky pbc with no clear way to switch to a competitor.

Seems a bit strange in terms of ownership, no?

It’s like a milder form of how git is open source but GitHub is a centralized service. And all the nice non-git social features such as stars and issues and discussions are proprietary.

In bsky’s case the extra stuff is (mostly) open source too but it’d still be very expensive to build a full featured alternative so 95% of people just default to GitHub.