Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber

Re:Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CE... by r14c on Monday March 25, 2024 @05:33PM (#39821491)

I honestly hope so. Having organizations like Meta or Twitter et al control massive sections of the social media landscape is not healthy. Any organization, group, or individual that wants to have an online presence should be able to spin up their own service and publish to any constellation of servers that want to hear what they have to say. I hope the EU efforts to push common standards are also applied to US companies in US markets to make all of the coms services federate like we were promised over a decade ago.

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Re:Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CE... by luqtas on Monday March 25, 2024 @07:07PM (#39822277)

isn't better to have legal regulations on big servers? as i can see some abuse from hosts (that entered early it the game) & now hold multi-thousand users instance...

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Re:Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CE... by ein0p on Monday March 25, 2024 @08:57PM (#39823145)

Who do you think writes the regulations in the US? The lobbyists. They are written mostly with the intent of creating regulatory capture and making life difficult for smaller players.

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Re:Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CE... by r14c on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @11:27AM (#39829119)

why not both? i recognize that large decentralized networks create some challenges, but imo that's still preferable to giving a small number of large (even heavily regulated) operators total control over the network.

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Re:Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CE... by threeseed on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @05:23PM (#39833033)

Meta enabled ActivityPub based fediverse support this week for US Threads users.

So today you can spin up your own Mastodon server and have anyone follow you from Threads and vice versa.

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Re:Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CE... by r14c on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @07:50PM (#39834162)

Personally I don't think this is particularly exciting. Buy in from major social media entities at this stage is fine, but what matters, in my opinion, is the overall growth of the network outside of these incumbent social networking giants. I appreciate that they appear to be playing ball, but if the fediverse is successful on a scale that matters this will be a minor footnote.

No doubt that the existing major networks would prefer to be able to enclose the budding commons that the fediverse is starting to create, but I'm hopeful that people will choose community and/or locally operated alternatives rather than continue buying into the mega corporate offerings.

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Re:Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CE... by zizee on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @05:56PM (#39833324)

Will they extend this to Instagram? Until then (and even after) I'd be suspicious of their intentions. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...

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Re:Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CE... by threeseed on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @06:56PM (#39833765)

Instagram is moving towards being a TikTok competitor so it doesn't make much sense.

Either way their intentions are pretty easy to understand.

ActivityPub integration keeps regulators off their back and allows external content to appear on Threads which they can then monetise alongside ads.

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Re:Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CE... by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @10:15PM (#39835033)

No "and vice versa" yet. Threads can broadcast over ActivityPub but it doesn't receive back anything yet. They are working on it.

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