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Re:Explore Bluesky social network without invitation on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:39PM (#36590890)
Thanks for reporting. I just tried it again, and it works for me: https://bridge.spxp.org/at/@jack.bsky.social

Maybe there has been a communication problem to the bsky servers or a copy/paste problem.

Explore Bluesky social network without invitation

Posted by skopf on Friday June 30, 2023 @03:15PM
from the self-post dept.

Bluesky recently gained a lot of media attention, but is still invite only.If you want to already explore the network while sitting on the waitlist, here is a small trick: The SPXP bridge is already handling the AT protocol! You can use it to explore the network via SPXP, for example Jack's account: https://bridge.spxp.org/at/@jack.bsky.socialYou can either hop through the json data in a web...

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Re:Show HN: SPXP: New approach to social network focuses on sovereignt... on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:36PM (#35359691)
I was frustrated seeing more and more local businesses or media companies moving to closed social networks while letting their open websites become deserted. Interesting information became not just harder to find, all my interactions are now monitored and analyzed. Ideally, social networks should just be "like the WWW". There are multiple proposals for decentralized social networks like Diaspora, ActivityPub, AT Protocol or SSB. Interestingly, all of them are using either a federated or a peer-to-peer architecture, but none so far the IMHO obvious approach – like the WWW. SPXP instead uses a client / server architecture and radically pushes power into endpoint devices, giving users and content creators full control.