• Sl00k@programming.devOP
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    17 hours ago

    Posted in another comment but wikipedia disagrees.

    The Fediverse (commonly shortened to fedi)[4][5][6] is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as federation) using a common protocol.

    We can argue semantics all day but at the end of the day I’ll hold the same stance that we shouldn’t be fracturing the communities and instead discussing the content and idea of a decentralized communicating social media landscape.

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      12 hours ago

      I believe you’re quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

      It seems that document currently expresses that “the AT Protocol, which powers the Bluesky social network” is “[a] major protocol in competition with the Fediverse”, which suggests that neither “the AT Protocol” nor “Bluesky” are included in the Fediverse.

      Moreover, “AT Protocol” and “Bluesky” are conspicuously absent from the second paragraph of the article content / lead section.

      The majority of Fediverse platforms are based on free and open-source software, and create connections between servers using the ActivityPub protocol. Some software still supports older federation protocols as well, such as OStatus, the Diaspora protocol and Zot. Diaspora* is the only actively developed software project classified under the original definition of Fediverse that does not support ActivityPub.

      There discussion related to this around https://thebrainbin.org/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/705694/-/comment/5682552

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      15 hours ago

      wE CaN aRgUe SeMaNtiCs aLL dAy

      we shouldn’t be fracturing the communities

      Maybe use the same protocol, then.

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      17 hours ago

      And what common protocol is that? If it doesn’t talk to Fediverse servers using those servers’ protocol, then it’s not part of the same network.

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        17 hours ago

        ATProto is it’s own protocol / network of social media services that are communicating with each other?

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          17 hours ago

          So we agree that it is a different network? It is not the network that is the Fediverse?

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          16 hours ago

          The “Fediverse” (capital F) refers to the social media platforms utilizing ActivityPub, specifically. I don’t believe there’s any agreed-upon name for such a network on ATProto, since Bluesky is the only platform actively using it.

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            I don’t believe there’s any agreed-upon name for such a network on ATProto

            They use the term ‘Atmosphere’ which is, admittedly, a really good play on words.