A few weeks after emerging from invite-only status, social network Bluesky is taking another big step toward becoming more than just a service. twitter X-Clone: The door to the Federation has been opened.
In a nutshell, this means that the Bluesky network is no longer just hosted on Bluesky’s servers. Anyone can start their own server. Don’t want to store your personal data on your company’s servers? You can self-host it or move it to another third party’s server. This is what Bluesky has been promising since launch, and it’s just starting to roll out in early access today.
Bluesky is not the first social network built on the idea of a set of federated servers. Mastodon basically works like that.
However, Mastodon uses the ActivityPub standard, which is open for federation. This is the same protocol used by decentralized Reddit, YouTube, and Flickr alternatives such as Lemmy, Peertube, and Pixelfed.
Bluesky uses a proprietary protocol called the AT protocol, or “atproto”, which is (currently) not compatible with ActivityPub (although some developers are considering interoperability, for better or for worse). (We are working on a bridge that enables gender). And the company says some of the benefits include more user-friendly data portability. all The data is included.
But Bluesky’s protocol doesn’t have an “instance” feed, which gives those running the servers less control over how users experience the network. By default, a user will encounter everything on her Bluesky network (although both the user and the server her operator have access to) to moderation tools and blocklists.
These are interesting times for social networks…and to be honest, I don’t have much energy to keep up with the latest trends. But for what it’s worth, you can follow Liliputing on BlueSky, or you can follow me on Bluesky or Mastodon (the Mastodon feed for all the articles I publish on the site, and the theoretical There is also another Mastodon feed for all articles from ) all Reputing writers, but this is a bit unstable and only shows some posts).
Bluesky now supports federation (no longer a single central server) [Bluesky]
Note that while Bluesky opens the door to federation (you can host your own servers), its AT protocol differs from ActivityPub, which powers Mastodon, in important ways. Content, moderation, timelines, and other data are tied to your account and not to our servers.
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26063 (Canary Channel) [Windows Blogs]
The latest Windows 11 preview builds support WiFi 7, enabling features such as simultaneous use of multiple bands, increased bandwidth, and increased throughput.
New features in Fairphone 4 include: [Fairphone]
Fairphone has rolled out updated camera software for the Fairphone 4, bringing speed, accuracy and stability improvements, improved low-light performance, and Super Night Mode to the previous generation phone’s camera app.
Coming soon to PS VR2 [PlayStation Blog]
Sony is “testing whether PS VR2 players can access additional games on PC” with the goal of making the VR headset work with PC games later this year. Until now, PS VR2 only supported PS5 game consoles.
An almost completely open source boot chain for Rockchip’s RK3588. [Collabora]
Collabora’s Debian images replace the previously used closed bootloader with open source binaries. Collaborate says there are “still a few missing pieces” and some known issues, but it uses a “fully open source boot chain” to power this processor. You’re one step closer to being able to boot GNU/Linux distributions on your devices.
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