Mastodawn

I am thankful that I do not need to say „thankyou“ to #Bluesky, the company and its investors for the verification of accounts or to ask them for changes in their configuration so that my social media platform is working.

It shows how dependent #Eurosky and #ATProto still is on Bluesky. They are at the mercy of them. And I do not trust Eurosky to be ever free and fully independent, even if I really want to believe in it.

Please change my mind, but for now I keep on building on ActivityPub.

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Jaap-Henk Hoepman 🟥 ⬜️ 🟩 ⬛️17h ago

@Sascha @aerique But how is this different from AcrivityPub/Mastodon? If I am on a large instance A and want to reach members of another large instance B I need the cooperation of B too (it needs to federate with me), no?

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Sascha Foerster

17h ago

@xot @aerique Let me try (I might fail):
- Verification is easy in ActivityPub (AP): If I am on A, I can verify without any interaction of instance B. (Of course verification in ATProto (AT) and AP are different verifications anyway, AP verifies links, AT verifies accounts AFAIK).
- Rate limits: Users of A in AP do not care for any rate limits on B when talking to each other or other instances than B. All Eurosky-PDS-users are limited by Blueskys rate limit now in AT.

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Jaap-Henk Hoepman 🟥 ⬜️ 🟩 ⬛️

@Sascha @aerique Thanks. Wasn’t aware that all Eurosky-PDS-users are limited by Blieskys rate limit, even when talking to each other. That’s a fundamental difference indeed.