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@jaredwhite

Well there are the people working at Bluesky the company (doesn't seem to be my crowd either) and then there's the development community trying to make the Atmosphere independent from them.

Not super familiar with the second group, other than folks I already know from here, but I do give them some benefit of doubt.

I mean, some of them are doing some interesting stuff, and again, trying to create independence from Bluesky the company. And that's quite commendable.

Yeah, I'd prefer to see them put in the effort here, but fediverse development is arguably more challenging, and with a smaller and less diverse userbase, probably less rewarding.

@coreysnipes @_elena

@coreysnipes I do like that there is interest in implementing some of the better ideas here, things like portable identity, or at least better migration.

But we all know here there is just not enough funding for all the work that's needed.

Yes, Bluesky/Atmosphere is heavily subsidized right, but still, there is a ton of momentum and excitement around it.

There are people putting in the effort to make the ecosystem more decentralized, many don't like how much control Bluesky the company has.

And they might just very well succeed.

@jaredwhite @_elena

@jaredwhite

You can run some of the ATProto infrastructure on a Raspberry Pi as well, with some of the same trade-offs we have here, like not having the full network view.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116126040489956521

Not really trying to advocate for the Atmosphere here, mind you, but there is quite a lot of momentum over there.

And there is definitely progress, even if it's slow. A bit like here.

@_elena

@jaredwhite @everton137

Yes, just to add, PDS is the easy part.

Here's a better way to view the network.

https://atp.fyi/network

@_elena @jaredwhite To be fair, it is possible to host all of the ATProto infrastructure for much cheaper with the same trade-offs as with a fediverse server, where you get an incomplete view of the network.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116126040489956521

@_elena @jaredwhite That is, with one exception.

Apparently the built-in DMs are stored off-protocol on Bluesky's servers. So, yeah.

(But they are apparently working on that.)

@jaredwhite

👀

https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/116279236976748796

It's been a fun weekend building a new working fediverse applikation.

The tech stack so far..

Backend: Go — fast, simple, great concurrency. No magic, just code.

Frontend: SvelteKit — feels like writing HTML that actually works. SSR out of the box.

Database: PostgreSQL — boring in the best possible way.

Queue: Asynq + Redis — async ActivityPub delivery with retry logic. Workers run separately from the API.

Federation: ActivityPub — HTTP signatures, shared inbox, fan-out delivery for groups and followers.

Infra: Docker Compose — one file per instance, easy to spin up new nodes.

Everything self-hostable. No cloud dependencies. No vendor lock-in.

Still early days — but the foundation feels solid.

And yes - A lot of help fra Claude code. I decided to go all in an use big tech to fight big tech.

#Fedibook #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Go #Golang #SvelteKit #OpenSource #IndieWeb

@sindum Go is the fucking bomb. ❤️

I sat down with @snarfed.org to talk about his work around the #fediverse, the #indieweb and the #atmosphere including (fed.)brid.gy and @anewsocial

https://openchannels.fm/connecting-decentralized-social-networks-and-rethinking-interoperability/

#podcast #activitypub #atproto #bluesky

@quillmatiq you should post about this on the @anewsocial account!

@liaizon Tysm for the heads up!

After Madblog, how many of you would like #ActivityPub and #Indieweb support to come to GPSTracker too?

This is an idea that I’ve been flirting with for a while.

Like many Millennials, 10-15 years ago I was into the Foursquare-mania. It was the age where pubs would offer discount to their Foursquare mayor and where people used to share their Foursquare stats and compete on how many badges they had collected.

Then Foursquare decided to pivot its platform towards the business-side instead, the check-in app was spun off into Swarm, it gradually lost users but it gained trackers, and by now I think only 1-2 of my contacts (out of >100 in the golden age) still use it.

By now I don’t think anyone has filled that gap; there isn’t any social media built around networks that share and recommend their check-ins.

#GPSTracker already supports a lot of tracking, timeline and check-in features, synchronization of geo events with mobile devices, and even stats with arbitrary aggregations (by country, time range, city, region etc.). Plus some features that Foursquare never implemented (like searching for checkins on the timeline by simply selecting an area on the map).

#Microformats already support location tags through the h-adr class, although they are rarely used. Both #Webmentions and ActivityPub could send check-in activities as permalinks to pages with those tags. And the #OpenStreetMap APIs could do the heavylifting of retrieving POIs in in a certain lat/long box.

The only hurdle would be implementing the protocols under the hood, as both the Webmentions and Pubby libraries are in #Python while #GPSTracker is in #Typescript. But it could be a good chance to start writing multi-language bindings for those libraries.

Let me know if it’s something that you would use, or even self-host, and if you know if there’s anything in the Fediverse that already fills this niche.

@marxjohnson I am planning a moodle plugin for badgefed!