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I just received my invite code today and took a quick look around the app. Like Mastodon I do not prefer microblogging platforms. And that's all I know about Bluesky.

So, what can you tell me about this project?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Could Bluesky not just implement ActivityPub too? Is there a reason why they are not doing that?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

They chose not to after researching options. Pretty sure they decides account portability was a key feature needed and AP doesn''t do this. As in taking your account and all your posts and data witj you to a new server. I assume there is a technical reason why this would be very difficult to add to AP/Mastodon otherwise they could have just added it themselves.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah the not being able to fully move your account and all its history is one of the biggest shortcomings of AP for me. I hope they shore that up eventually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

100% agree, without it, the decentralization aspect is severely weakened

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