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Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? (privacy.thenexus.today)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

can anyone recommend a good read into the actual developments happening with ATproto as of late? i've seen a lot of insisting lately that things are changing/have changed but no one's saying what exactly is or has changed

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Fediverse Reports regularly talks about updates with ATProto, and I found this blog post mentioned in another blog post from WeDistribute.

    The most interesting development as of late is the progress of Blacksky. It is the first major attempt at creating an independent "Bluesky Instance"–where in that it's functionally the same as Bluesky but doesn't rely on any of Bluesky's infrastructure.

    There is also Wafrn, which is really hard to explain. @gabboman@app.wafrn.net is in this thread somewhere and will have to explain it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not really that hard to explain, unless I'm missing your point. Wafrn is a federated Tumblr-like platform that allows two-way interaction with Bluesky users (without the need for bridging).

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago*

    There's way more to Wafrn than that, and it's extremely interesting.

    You can treat Wafrn like an independent ATProto platform (like Blacksky). It has its own PDS and AppView (which uses Blacksky's Relay), so it's not at all dependent on Bluesky for obtaining posts (assuming those posts are also published on an independent PDS).

    What's unique is that Wafrn is actually ActivityPub-first, meaning it doesn't have any issue interacting with Mastodon users, but doesn't have all the same features of a normal ATProto platform. For example must have your account on Wafrn in order to use it (as opposed to blacksky.community, which lets you sign in with an existing account on another ATProto platform); you can, however, sign into bsky.app (or blacksky) with an account created on Wafrn.

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