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.

Show thread

Jaap-Henk Hoepman 🟥 ⬜️ 🟩 ⬛️22h 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?

Show thread

Sascha Foerster

22h 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.

Show thread

wakest likes your bugs ⁂

@Sascha @xot @aerique ActivityPub has no analogous feature to the Verification we are looking at here on Bluesky. If you are talking about Mastodon's implementation of rel="me" link verification this is not an part of ActivityPub this is Mastodon using the a microformat developed by the IndieWeb community and it really does a totally different thing then the Verified badge that Bluesky has. And any server in the fediverse can set up a rate limit, and I am sure many have *some* in place.