What exactly is the Fediverse?
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Are you talking about bridgy fed?
ja fedibridge bridgyfed im mincing words
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So, the term Fediverse basically refers to the ActivityPub protocol and the associated server software. Technically, it's not just ActivityPub, but also the AT protocol and nostr. But another layer to the Fediverse, at least in my mind, is having some federation. Meaning Bluesky isn't apart of the Fediverse, even though it's built on the AT Protocol, because of it's isolation. Since there's no interaction with Lemmy, Mastodon, PixelFed, or other federated social networks, it's not part of the Fediverse.
"federation" implies deep interconnect, a "bridge" on the otherhand is an artificial architecture of connection along narrow fragile terms.
Just because you build a bridge to the fediverse doesn't mean you are really part of the vibrant, free core of the fediverse city center, you are just mooching out or at best trying to arrange an alliance.
When two things federate on the fediverse it is like there being two cool places in a city where there are a million different ways to connect those two places together, often in surprising and novel ways that people didn't necessarily see.
A city of bridges is not a city.
So like, cool Bluesky has a bridge here now, I hope it doesn't get knocked out by a freak act of nature I mean enshittification....
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I was mostly referring to the fact that the day Bluesky decides to ban bridges, ATProto won't be part the Fediverse as per the definition of the comment above.
I personally prefer to just consider them as out from the start.
I was mostly referring to the fact that the day Bluesky decides to ban bridges, ATProto won’t be part the Fediverse as per the definition of the comment above.
It will, Friendica uses the BS API.
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