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An important step toward a more interoperable "fediverse" — the broader network of decentralized social media apps like Mastodon, Bluesky and others — has been achieved. Now, users on decentralized apps like Mastodon, powered by the ActivityPub protocol, and those powered by Bluesky's AT Protocol, can easily follow people on other networks, see their posts, as well as like, reply and repost them. The technology making this possible is Bridgy Fed, one of the efforts aimed at connecting the fediverse with the web, Bluesky and, perhaps later, other networks like Nos...

The spam reached Bluesky by first crossing over two other decentralized networks: Mastodon and Nostr.

SkyBridge was among the recipients of a small distribution of $4,800 in grant funding from Bluesky, distributed across projects.

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on competing with Threads and Mastodon and why decentralization is a promising path forward.

When a system becomes too tightly-controlled and centralized, the people being squeezed tend to push back to reclaim their lost autonomy. The internet is no exception. While the internet began as a loose affiliation of universities and government bodies, that emergent digital commons has been...