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Is the Bluesky kind of federation an example for the future of the Fediverse?

Read here what I think about this:
https://blog.gelbphoenix.de/the-glass-floor-of-digital-sovereignty/

#Fediverse #Bluesky #Blog #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #DigitalSovereignty #ATProto

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Is Bluesky truly sovereign? I explore why the AT Protocol’s "Relay" architecture creates a glass floor for digital independence.

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Why Bluesky’s "ATmosphere" isn't the blueprint for a truly free Fediverse.

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Why Bluesky’s "ATmosphere" isn't the blueprint for a truly free Fediverse.

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I had the opportunity to tell the founders of the Sovereign Tech Agency (@sovtechfund) that I'm a big fan of their organization. I firmly believe that other countries should have similar initiatives. In fact, the EU should have one too.

Their recent €600k+ grant to Mastodon is a great example of what public investment in open digital infrastructure can look like. It strengthens the Fediverse, a real alternative to X. As I’ve argued in the #LeaveX campaign: we already have a viable social media alternative to X (1) and what we lack is sustained funding and political commitment. (2)

Thus, if more EU countries invested in improving Mastodon, how quickly could it become Europe’s de facto public square?

While most European politicians still prefer X for their official communication, reducing technical barriers could attract a more diverse audience, including the people our representatives want to reach, like journalists and the general public.

By the way, it's interesting, though not surprising, that the Sovereign Tech Agency has almost four times as many followers on Mastodon as on Bluesky. It would be great to see them highlighting posts and profiles of some awesome open-source projects active on the Fediverse. 😉

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #SocialMedia #EU #OpenSource

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Mastodon Profile (@sovtechfund@mastodon.social) - Alt Text:
Sovereign Tech Agency - Mastodon Profile

Display Name: Sovereign Tech Agency

Handle: @sovtechfund@mastodon.social

Bio: Strengthening digital infrastructure and open source ecosystems in the public interest. Home of the Sovereign Tech Fund, Sovereign Tech Resilience, Sovereign Tech Fellowship, and other programs supporting critical FOSS technologies.

Joined: February 2023

Stats:
Posts: 1,101
Follows: 113
Followers: 6,609

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Bluesky Profile (@sovereign.tech) - Alt Text:
Sovereign Tech Agency - Bluesky Profile

Display Name: Sovereign Tech Agency

Handle: @sovereign.tech

Bio: Strengthening digital infrastructure & open source ecosystems in the public interest. Home of the Sovereign Tech Fund, Sovereign Tech Resilience, Sovereign Tech Fellowship, & other programs supporting critical FOSS technologies.

Website: www.sovereign.tech

Stats:
Followers: 1.7K
Following: 59
Posts: 803

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Hello from my new #Mastadon account. I deleted #Facebook, #Pinterest, #Instagram & #BlueSky. I hope this forum is not so American-centric. Here's to #gardening #nature #flowers and #maincoons !

#introduction #newhere

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Do you use the WordPress.com Reader? I am definitely not objective on this, but I think it’s a pretty nice (and free!) way to consume information, whether it comes from RSS feeds or newsletters on WordPress sites.

If you needed a little push to give the tool a try, watch this space! Over the next few weeks, @pfefferle and I will be working on a small Hackathon to bring the open social web into the WordPress.com reader (or the other way around), so you’ll have more reasons to like the Reader!

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Screenshot of a preview of part of the interface of the WordPress.com Reader interface

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I joined #Fediverse after 2025 inauguration. So far I see the future is bright here at Fediverse

The clean energy kind of bright

Never going to be as bright as tech-bro-business kind of bright like #Facebook, #Instagram, #Twitter (never going to call anything else), or #Bluesky, but that is okay with me

I choose clean and friendly energy kind of bright over fossil fuel polluted kind of bright.

And that is how I explain to people why I only have #Mastodon and #Pixelfed accounts when they asked

For now, have a good night!

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I love how with #mastodon (and #activitypub) I can have a feed that covers video, micrologging, and images in one place. This is why I have chosen it as my main platform to post on and I bridge to others like #bluesky

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I am in a small hackathon project with @jeremy to bring the open social web to the WordPress.com reader (or the other way around)!

Stay tuned for more updates and have a nice weekend :)

#bluesky #activitypub #wordpress #mastodon #fediverse #automattic #radicalspeedmonth

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Bridgy Fed is one of the underappreciated but load-bearing parts of the open social web: you don't need to choose any more whether to create an account in the #ActivityPub-based #Fediverse (like #Mastodon) or the #ATProtocol-based #ATmosphere (like #Bluesky).

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Bluesky Back Online After DDoS Attack, as Iran-Linked 313 Team Takes Credit https://hackread.com/bluesky-online-dd os-attack-iran-313-team/ #Cybersecurity #CyberAttacks #CyberAttack #CyberCrime #Security #313Team #Bluesky #DDOS #Iran

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Bluesky Back Online After DDoS Attack, as Iran-Linked 313 Team Takes Credit

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Bluesky is back online after a 24-hour DDoS attack disrupted services, with the Iran-linked 313 Team claiming responsibility and no data breach reported.

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Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

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Bluesky Back Online After DDoS Attack, as Iran-Linked 313 Team Takes Credit

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Hackread - Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More

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Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

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The Internet Last Week

* Bluesky outage
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/its-not-just-you-bluesky-is-sorta-down/
https://mashable.com/article/bluesky-d own
https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra tion/116422245928057841
* Linux 7.0 release
https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/4/12/604
* UltraDNS DDoS attack
https://status.ultradns.com/pages/inci dent/5f80d63ea1c48e04c1dfa100/69df46801be5d506033e94d9
* Operation PowerOFF DDoS infrastructure disruption
https://www. europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/europol-supported-global-operation-targets-over-75-000-users-engaged-in-ddos-attacks

#Bluesky #Linux #UltraDNS #DDoS #Outages

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Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET on April 15.

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Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET on April 15.

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Bluesky confirms DDoS attack is cause of continued app outages | TechCrunch

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The X alternative experienced issues on Thursday morning.

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Attached: 4 images

Bluesky's Official Responses Regarding the System Outage

Thursday Bluesky posted that the outage was cause by a "sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack", and promised an update by the end of the day. The end of day update was simply that they would provide an update by this morning. Friday morning they posted an update that they would provide an update by the end of the day. Later they simply posted that they will provide an update by Monday morning.

#Bluesky #DDoS

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Attached: 4 images

Bluesky's Official Responses Regarding the System Outage

Thursday Bluesky posted that the outage was cause by a "sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack", and promised an update by the end of the day. The end of day update was simply that they would provide an update by this morning. Friday morning they posted an update that they would provide an update by the end of the day. Later they simply posted that they will provide an update by Monday morning.

#Bluesky #DDoS

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On 13 April 2026, 21 countries joined forces in a coordinated action week that focused on enforcement and prevention measures against over 75 000 criminal users engaging in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire services. With over 75 000 warning emails and letters being sent to identified criminal users and 4 arrests, the action week also led to the takedown of 53 domains  and the issuing of  25 search warrants. 

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Operation PowerOFF is a global effort aimed at dismantling criminal DDoS-for-hire infrastructure

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Europol-supported global operation targets over 75 000 users engaged in DDoS attacks – Operation PowerOFF is a global effort aimed at dismantling criminal DDoS-for-hire infrastructure | Europol

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Bliuesky, mountain and runway

#Pxlmo #Nature #Mountain #Travel #Photography #TeamPixel #ShotOnPixel #Fotografie #Bluesky #HongKong #Pixelfed #HKG #SilentSunday

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Blue sky, mountain and airport runway view. Partial view of jet on the right side along with truck passing by from right to left on designated road. Captured with Google Pixel in Hong Kong China

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116415821 939972420

Manche sagen ja, dass Bluesky und sein Protokoll ATProto eine Alternative zum Activitypub-basierten Fediverse seien, denn es wäre ja auch föderiert. Oder könnte es sein.

Falls euch das jemand sagt oder ihr es sogar selbst glaubt:

Die kurze Antwort lautet "nein". Die lange Antwort ist "nein, siehe dieser Thread."

#Bluesky #ATProto

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Bluesky is down today. "Hah", I think, "since I use a self-hosted PDS for posting and Blacksky for viewing posts, I can go on using the service just fine".

Blacksky can't show me my own posts. I can make them and they show up on my PDS, but my profile shows none more recent than last night.

I wonder if Blacksky is coincidentally having server problems, or if Blacksky has a still-undisclosed dependency on Bluesky services. (It *does* have disclosed use of Bluesky moderation; maybe that's it.)

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Bluesky is down today. "Hah", I think, "since I use a self-hosted PDS for posting and Blacksky for viewing posts, I can go on using the service just fine".

Blacksky can't show me my own posts. I can make them and they show up on my PDS, but my profile shows none more recent than last night.

I wonder if Blacksky is coincidentally having server problems, or if Blacksky has a still-undisclosed dependency on Bluesky services. (It *does* have disclosed use of Bluesky moderation; maybe that's it.)

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Sooooo is there a special name for Bluesky posts? And what's the social protocol for ~~retweeting~~ boosting them on Mastodon?

#mastodon #fosstodon #bluesky

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Via @quillmatiq

#bluesky #atproto

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‪Alistair Davidson‬ ‪@moh-kohn.eurosky.social‬

Yeah the fact I could log into blacksky's app with eurosky data while bluesky was down means that old criticism of ATPro is definitely for the bin.

‪Anuj Ahooja‬ ‪@quillmatiq.com‬

Yes, and it's always been in the bin for folks who had the foresight of the network *could* look like rather than being dead-focused on what it used to be or even is right now.

You can either look at the DDoS event and point at failures, or you can look at it as an opportunity to use the momentum and do something bigger.

None of this was ever meant to be easy.

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I want to applaud @rose.bsky.team and @mellifluousbox for appearing on stage together and expressing a desire to cooperate. As I've said for a long time, #Bluesky and #Mastodon, #ActivityPub and #ATProtocol should not be fighting each other. The real opposition are the oligarch-controlled, enshittified, manipulating major commercial platforms. We have no chance of making a dent into their dominance if the revolution fights itself instead.

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🚀 New beta (v11) of my always-on #music recognition for #macOS, Listening Post! It's a solid bug fix release, but, you know, progress was made, even w/o flashy headliner features 😅

#Scrobble to local files, #LastFm, #ListenBrainz, #Rocksky, #Maloja. #Shortcuts automation. Support for #AppleMusic, #Spotify, #Deezer, #Bluesky, #Mastodon, #ActivityPub.

Website: https://actions.work/listening-post?re f=mastodon

Forum: https://forum.actions.work/t/listening-post-v2026-0-11-beta-11/856

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Always-on music recognition for your Mac. Supports local files, Last.fm, ListenBrainz (and compatible), Rocksky (and compat), Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer. Post to Bluesky, Mastodon, ActivityPub. Automate with macOS Shortcuts.

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Always-on music recognition for your Mac. Supports local files, Last.fm, ListenBrainz (and compatible), Rocksky (and compat), Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer. Post to Bluesky, Mastodon, ActivityPub. Automate with macOS Shortcuts.

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Listening Post: Ambient Music Recognition for macOS

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New beta build is out, grab it from the Listening Post product page! 

:construction: :construction: :construction: THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. The database model is subject to change, that’s why it’s still beta. There m…

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New beta build is out, grab it from the Listening Post product page!   🚧 🚧 🚧 THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. The database model is subject to change, that’s why it’s still beta. There might be breaking changes from one beta to the next! And now you know. 😉 🚧 🚧 🚧    A bugfix and chore release, mostly. Lots of changes under the hood, but here’s the interesting stuff.  Changes  Channel window’s listening toggle moved to ...

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New beta build is out, grab it from the Listening Post product page!   🚧 🚧 🚧 THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. The database model is subject to change, that’s why it’s still beta. There might be breaking changes from one beta to the next! And now you know. 😉 🚧 🚧 🚧    A bugfix and chore release, mostly. Lots of changes under the hood, but here’s the interesting stuff.  Changes  Channel window’s listening toggle moved to ...

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Hey Bluesky users... 🙋‍♂️

Good day to try Mastodon. We won't bite.

Join a server. We call them instances. Here are few great choices:

mstdn.social: https://mstdn.social/auth/sign_up A really great choice! EU based and run by @stux. Cats!

Vivaldi: https://social.vivaldi.net/about Yes, Vivaldi the browser, but you don't need the browser.

infosec.exchange: https://infosec.exchange/auth/sign_up Techies! Run by @jerry

Or just go to https://joinmastodon.org and pick one. It is hard to go wrong.

#Mastodon #Bluesky

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Sign up on Mastodon today! With an account, you will be able to follow people, post updates and exchange messages with users from any Mastodon server and more!

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Sign up on Mastodon today! With an account, you will be able to follow people, post updates and exchange messages with users from any Mastodon server and more!

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Vivaldi Social is part of the Mastodon network and is hosted in Iceland by the makers of Vivaldi Browser. Everyone is welcome to join.

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Vivaldi Social is part of the Mastodon network and is hosted in Iceland by the makers of Vivaldi Browser. Everyone is welcome to join.

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Sign up on Mastodon today! With an account, you will be able to follow people, post updates and exchange messages with users from any Mastodon server and more!

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Sign up on Mastodon today! With an account, you will be able to follow people, post updates and exchange messages with users from any Mastodon server and more!

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Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

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Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

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RE: https://federate.social/@profcarroll/1 16414024190112715

Mike Masnick was unavailable for comment

#BluSkibidi #bluesky #centralized #outage

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Bluesky is completely down. Even the status page is dead. Very not decentralized. (edit: service restored after a multihour outage)

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Bluesky is completely down. Even the status page is dead. Very not decentralized. (edit: service restored after a multihour outage)

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Heads-up to fediverse admins, Bluesky is having a bad day, in case you see dormant accounts coming back to life.

https://status.bsky.app

#bluesky #BlueskyOutage #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins

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Social media platform Bluesky has been experiencing service interruptions for the past few hours. Here's what @Mashable is reporting.

https://flip.it/WXNh3q

#Technology #Tech #Bluesky

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The X alternative experienced issues on Thursday morning.