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Recalling the #Bluesky outage last week that called into question just how "distributed" and "decentralized" the corporate platform actually is. Contemporaneous posts on the matter by CTO Paul Frazee boiled down attribution to an accidental third party DDoS attack on all of the Bluesky PDSs. Frazee promised more details once the issue was resolved. Apparently this writeup is in the works. Stay tuned.

https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3lnq5lzhy2k2u

☝️ Just a reminder that this week we have been promised a "detailed writeup" from Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee on the #Bluesky outage last week that was attributed to an accidental third party DDoS attack on all the company's PDSs.

@Mastodon it will be tricky to liberate people from legacy social media platforms. People that embrace the values and vision of the #fediverse have already migrated years ago, despite the usability issues. New opportunities do come when there are major shocks, like political events but luck favors the prepared: #bluesky grew a lot as of late because of a smoother UX and catering in particular to US users fleeing X/Tweeter.

Tough job but failure not an option 🙏😍😬🖖

News That Will Drive You To Drink

#HappyHour #Orange #News #BlueSky #Tasks

https://mockpaperscissors.com/2025/05/01/news-that-will-drive-you-to-drink-2287/

This week's #Bluesky and #ATProto news - ATmosphere Report #114

- First EU atproto conf with @ahoy.eu
- Verification on Bluesky with checkmarks
- @stream.place gets 500k in funding
- A 50k grant from @freeourfeeds.com for developing IndieSky with dev community

https://fediversereport.com/atmosphere-report-114/

I'm not sure what to do with the domain bsky.brid.gy on #Mastodon. The #Bluesky bridge has more problems than benefits, but if I ban it, I would potentially miss out on interesting posts.

But one always needs to be alert to recognize that any reply is just for the Mastodon side of the discussion. The original poster doesn't see it.

@feld
what's the #bluesky native fail whale picture?
@jwildeboer

For a #WordPress site with no or little budget: What plugins are available to make posts available through #Mastodon, #BlueSky or even #Facebook (non-profit website, lots of older people, like me, in the target), without having to pay monthly subscription fees?

#AskFedi

The totally decentralised #BlueSky is down. Again. I can tell you about that because here in the #fediverse we actually ARE decentralised. It’s that simple :)

Übrigens, #Bluesky war in der Nacht zu Freitag für etwa eine Stunde weitgehend offline.

Nur Nutzerinnen und Nutzer mit eigenem Personal Data Server waren nicht betroffen. Der Vorfall zeigt, dass Bluesky trotz dezentraler Ambitionen stark zentralisiert bleibt. Die Kritik daran wächst, während Plattformen wie #Mastodon echte #Dezentralisierung schon praktizieren.

https://www.heise.de/news/Bluesky-voruebergehend-nicht-erreichbar-Dezentral-und-trotzdem-komplett-offline-10361975.html

#SocialMedia #Netzwerke #Fediverse #Serverausfall #SozialeNetze

"No ambiente em formação que é o #Fediverso, duas propostas concorrentes polarizam os interessados: #Mastodon e #Bluesky. Embora ambas aplicações prometam #controle aos usuários, a forma como os serviços foram constituídos contam histórias muito diferentes, o que pode determinar #futuros distintos para seus participantes."
https://josemurilo.com/2025/04/23/a-rede-social-que-nao-pode-ser-vendida-porque-mastodon-e-nao-bluesky/

Exits are not enough. We must push for at least as many social media servers as we have web/email servers today. If you put out content or have a public presence, you should want it to be social to ensure that no person, corporation or govt can limit your reach. That everyone who will be interacting with your work is also similarly free to share it, w/o competing with ads/algos. That's the promise of #ActivityPub and where the #ATproto model falls short.

#SocialWeb #bluesky #AttentionDemocracy

Top o' the list in this week’s release is publish your Surf feeds to Bluesky and a new feature: the ability to pin posts.

Pinned posts are great for setting tone and context for people new to your feed. Use them to suggest hashtags and other ways for followers to participate, and add a link to the full feed (if your feed is also published to Bluesky — more on that here https://bsky.app/profile/surf.social/post/3lnnpyqge5c2p).

As always, please let us know what you think by sending notes to feedback@surf.social. And thank you for testing with us!

#Fediverse #socialweb #socialmedia #customfeeds #bluesky

Diskussion mit K1, warum sie und ihre Peers denn noch auf #Twitter oder #BlueSky sind obwohl viel von ihnen #LGBTQ+ sind. Sie meint #Mastodon ist toll, aber da ist niemand unter 50.

Also abgesehen davon, dass ich schon mit 49 hier war, gibt es Ecken im #Fediverse die 16-25jährige ansprechen?

Securing Democracy Dispatch

#ASDjoinsBluesky #Bluesky #GMF #FollowASD #FollowGMF

https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/securing-democracy-dispatch-341/

Good time to point out that, unlike #BlueSky, none of my 9 public social networking sites are providing user surveillance information to ICE or any other U.S. government agency.

There are over 200 huge sites telling the U.S. government what you are doing, and where you are doing it from.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/no-data-for-surveillance-tech/

#Mozilla #Tracking #Privacy #surveillance

O Ibram-Museus apoia o Fediverso como solução tecnológica crucial para a #preservação da #memóriadigital.

"No ambiente em formação que é o #Fediverso, duas propostas concorrentes polarizam os interessados: #Mastodon e #Bluesky. Embora ambas aplicações prometam #controle aos usuários, a forma como os serviços foram constituídos contam histórias muito diferentes, o que pode determinar #futuros distintos para seus participantes."

https://josemurilo.com/2025/04/23/a-rede-social-que-nao-pode-ser-vendida-porque-mastodon-e-nao-bluesky/

The fedi discourse on Bluesky's verification is very frustrating Don't et me wrong, there's a lot to critique with Bluesky's approach of combining their own platform-level verification with initially annointing a handful of third-party verifiers:

• community-oriented verification, along the lines that @rudyfraser.com suggests, would be much more power-distributive and equitable

• as @ngerakines.me notes, Bluesky's approach is missing something critical: consent

• as @DataDrivenMD points out, the current framework functionally disenfranchises community organizers who lack social networks with access to mainstream media and other institutions that are designed to exclude marginalized people

• just like on Twitter, he people initially verified are overwhelmingly cis, white, and male;

• the three initial external verifiers include the anti-trans NYTimes and one of their subsidiaries

• Bluesky hasn't said anything about their process for making decisions about who's "notable" enough for them to verify and how they decide somebody's "authentic".

To be fair, I am seeing a bit of discussion of some of these issues here. But I'm not seeing anything about consent, or community moderation, or equity. Instead, the vast majority of what I'm seeing is people saying hat the approach of external verifiers (run by entities other than Bluesky) and the Bluesky app attaching privileged semantics to the annointed ones isn't "decentraized."

Is that really the important thing here?

#bluesky #verification #fediverse

Our Foundation Ambassador, @FreddieJ is heading to Hamburg for https://ahoy.eu 🕸️

Although we're not ATProto experts, it's a great opportunity to meet up with friends in the open social web and to make some new ones.

If you're there, give Freddie a message!

#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #AhoyEU #Hamburg #ATProto #Bluesky #Mastodon