It’s always good to have options. Bluesky has really popped off with a lot of subcultures for how simple it is compared to fedi. A lot of furry artists have moved there, for instance.
EDIT: FWIW, said this before, but Bluesky’s server federation is more of a backend thing, ensuring the user doesn’t have to worry about federation too much and ensuring its network is more resilient.
Bluesky’s federation doesn’t exist yet. Maybe they’ve written some code, but I can’t self-host something that Bluesky users can follow.
You can run their code today and federate in their sandbox environment, but yeah, their “production network” still doesn’t federate yet. They said a while ago that the remaining work to be done was mostly around moderation; currently they say they expect to enable federation early next year but they have several other things on their pre-federation TODO now.
You can find details about their federation sandbox here and here.
Agreed, bsky is currently developing and testing its federation capabilities with multiple servers in-house, which is an elaborate way of scaling but doesn’t actually have the critical necessary component for a federation, ie another entity on the other side. Bsky is the sole operator, administrator, moderator, and arbiter.
Feels like there are a metric ton of furry artists on Mastodon too. I think furries are basically just everywhere. (Not that I care. Like what you like!)
It’s always good to have options. Bluesky has really popped off with a lot of subcultures for how simple it is compared to fedi. A lot of furry artists have moved there, for instance.
EDIT: FWIW, said this before, but Bluesky’s server federation is more of a backend thing, ensuring the user doesn’t have to worry about federation too much and ensuring its network is more resilient.
Bluesky’s federation doesn’t exist yet. Maybe they’ve written some code, but I can’t self-host something that Bluesky users can follow.
You can run their code today and federate in their sandbox environment, but yeah, their “production network” still doesn’t federate yet. They said a while ago that the remaining work to be done was mostly around moderation; currently they say they expect to enable federation early next year but they have several other things on their pre-federation TODO now.
You can find details about their federation sandbox here and here.
I’m glad to hear it’s not vaporware. Launching without open federation doesn’t give me a lot of confidence they view it as a core feature.
Agreed, bsky is currently developing and testing its federation capabilities with multiple servers in-house, which is an elaborate way of scaling but doesn’t actually have the critical necessary component for a federation, ie another entity on the other side. Bsky is the sole operator, administrator, moderator, and arbiter.
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Feels like there are a metric ton of furry artists on Mastodon too. I think furries are basically just everywhere. (Not that I care. Like what you like!)
They really are lol, and they make themselves known when they do.