What a surprise. A protocol that largely depends on centralized sections, gets focused on by federal agencies and ends up needing to identify individual users (and not just their age) and collect their privite information.
It's almost like decentralization was actually a good idea... 
Just dropped a new article on the VEX.blue BETA site: Connect your Bluesky account to the Fediverse
Want your Bsky posts to show up on Mastodon? Or your Mastodon account to be visible on Bsky?
This guide walks you through using bsky.brid.gy and ap.brid.gy so your posts & profile can talk to others across platforms.
Reply via your timeline 
https://new.vex.blue/articles/2024/09/06/bsky-fedi
For anyone that can't come to my talk at #ForwardJS in #Ottawa tonight, check out my slides and run the speaker notes through the shittiest text to speech you can find to get a similar experience.
Could someone explain a hypothetical.
If Vance were to join mastodon by comparison, assuming a similar desire to block from user, how else might this play out based on the way that federation works within an Activity Pub context.
Just trying to understand the practical nature of the two protocols as applied to this case.
Mastodon will implement quote-posts starting with v4.4, which is already available as a preview on the flagship instance Mastodon.social.
I use Bridgy Fed to automatically crosspost from Bsky – including quote-posts – to the Fediverse.
I’m curious what’s causing the “pending approval” message …
Esto se ve realmente interesante. Una herramienta que permite migrar cuentas entre activitypub y ATprotocol conservando publicaciones y seguidores. Y, según entiendo, también permite migrar entre plataformas del mismo protocolo. Habrá que ver qué tal va.
https://blog.anew.social/bounce-a-cross-protocol-migration-tool/
Just learnt of Bounce. May be a good tool to be aware of for those using #bluesky or the #ATProtocol
https://blog.anew.social/bounce-a-cross-protocol-migration-tool/
The problem with #Bluesky is they came to be during a time when decentralization was en vogue, so they decided to just be that.
But, it's marketing.
Ten, fifteen years ago Bluesky would've branded itself as "modular" or having a robust API like App dot Net.
They want to be the internet's common infrastructure. Of course they do. What for-profit company wouldn't want that?
I maintain that #ATProtocol is interesting. But it's not a noble pursuit.
Anyway, I deleted my BS account.
Destroying Autocracy – May 22, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Featured Item(s)
Hamish Campbell writes:
We need to keep highlighting an old but still urgent tension: the intersection of technology and social change. In this too often unspoken divide, one side leans heavily on practical, technical problem-solving. They want working code, functioning systems, and tangible results, not abstract debates. To them, critiques about capitalism shaping code sound like distractions from the “real work.”
The other side insists that technical problems are social problems. They argue that all code is written by people, shaped by culture, power, and history. Ignoring the social dynamics behind technology guarantees we repeat the same failures.
The Open Media Network isn’t just about media, it’s about building the social soil
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, TechnoFeudalism, and other douchebaggery
The European Council of the European Union reports:
Wired reports:
/e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It
You really should. I love it on my Fairphone.
Tuta shows us:
Best private Google alternatives: The ultimate list to De-Google your life in 2025.
Bert Hubert shares:
What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech
Lionel Dricot has a:
The Center for Democracy and Technology reports:
CDT Advocates for Counter-Drone Authorities that Protect Civil Liberties
The New Stack reports:
EuroNews reports:
EU to provide €5.5 million in emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat
BleepingComputer reports:
European Union sanctions Stark Industries for enabling cyberattacks
US indicts leader of Qakbot botnet linked to ransomware attacks
TechCrunch reports:
Fortnite returns to the US App Store after a five-year gap
Signal says:
By Default, Signal Doesn’t Recall
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
Micah Flee reports:
DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage’s archive server
TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more
Tech Policy reports:
Proposed Moratorium on US State AI Laws is Short-Sighted and Ill-Conceived
Pariah States
EuroNews reports:
Poland’s Tusk says Russian hackers attacked party websites ahead of presidential election
The Register reports:
Russia’s Fancy Bear swipes a paw at logistics, transport orgs’ email servers
The Kyiv Independent reports:
UK accuses Russian GRU of carrying out cyberattacks targeting logistics, technology organizations
Radio Free Europe reports:
Probe Says Russian Military Hackers Target Romanian Surveillance Cameras To Track Ukraine Aid
Wired reports:
Feds Charge 16 Russians Allegedly Tied to Botnets Used in Ransomware, Cyberattacks, and Spying
BleepingComputer reports:
Russian hackers breach orgs to track aid routes to Ukraine
Chinese hackers breach US local governments using Cityworks zero-day
DarkReading reports:
Pandas Galore: Chinese Hackers Boost Attacks in Latin America
AP reports:
Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza
Big Media
404 Media reports:
Viral AI-Generated Summer Guide Printed by Chicago Sun-Times Was Made by Magazine Giant Hearst
Calmatters reports:
Google follows Newsom in reducing support for California local news
Big Tech
Bloomberg reports:
Google Decided Against Offering Publishers Options in AI Search
MIT Technology Review reports:
By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible
The Guardian asks:
Can the term ‘cloud fascism’ help us understand – and resist – the hard right?
It can’t hurt, but if you want to take action that will resist it, read our Manifesto via the link in the navigation.
Runbox reports:
Outlook stores email in Microsoft Cloud – what you need to know
TechCrunch reports:
Judge pressures Apple to approve Fortnite or return to court
Grok says it’s ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, then blames ‘programming error’
404 Media reports:
‘Configuration Issue’ Allows Civitai Users to AI Generate Nonconsensual Porn Videos
Ars Technica reports:
Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections
Renée DiResta has:
We’re all trying to find the guy who did this
The Register reports:
‘Close to impossible’ for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers
Discouraging, but you can always do something locally.
Bleeping Computer reports:
TikTok videos now push infostealer malware in ClickFix attacks
Terror
404 Media reports:
Student Makes Tool That Identifies ‘Radicals’ on Reddit, Deploys AI Bots to Engage With Them
Cybersecurity/Privacy
404 Media reports:
Telegram Gave Authorities Data on More than 20,000 Users
Reuters reports:
So-called newspaper, The Washington Post reports:
Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras
The Register reports:
CISA has a new No. 2 … but still no official top dog
On a more encouraging note, It reports:
FBI, Microsoft, international cops bust Lumma infostealer service
The Internet Society reports:
Encryption Under Threat: The UK’s Backdoor Mandate and Its Impact on Online Safety
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Decentralisation as a shifting mental framework
Ben Wermuller says:
Let’s fund the open social web
IFTAS examines:
A New Social announces:
Mastondon announces it’s:
Ghost has:
Magic Pages has:
TechCrunch reports:
Open social web browser Surf makes it easier for anyone to build custom feeds
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
The Fediverse Report has:
Leaflet Lab announces:
We’re making a social publishing platform built on Bluesky
Kind of like Ghost with ActivityPub.
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
Follow me on the Fediverse
#117 #ActivityPub #AI #ATProtocol #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Bluesky #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Ghost #Mastodon #StopChina #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine
At SXSW's Fediverse House, it didn't matter which platform or protocol you preferred — everyone was focused on the singular goal of building a better internet. We've uploaded videos and highlights of key conversations from the event and rounded them up in one post. Here you go:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/fediverse-house-2025-roundup/
If you use Bluesky, you may be interested in today’s news that now you can publish Surf feeds to Bluesky. 
We’d love for you to test with us if you want! Here's more details:
そもそも、分散化という意味では #BlueSky と #Mastodon 
を比べるんじゃなくて、 #BlueSky と #Fediverse 
をくらべるべきなのではという気もする。 #ATProtocol と #ActivityPub の比較といったほうが良いかも。
#Mastodon の半分が最もメジャーなサーバー以外のサーバーに分散しているということは、#Fediverse という単位でみたらもっと多くの割合が分散しているということになるはず 
In this episode of the DotSocial podcast, recorded at the #FediverseHouse at SXSW, Bluesky CTO @pfrazee.com strapped on his butterfly wings to explain to @mike how the company is rethinking the internet’s architecture to create a more flexible, user-centric web.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/dot-social-paul-frazee-bluesky/
@osma
This just proves #ATProtocol isn't federated and it's all marketing scam. @bsky.app has been nothing but false promises, wasn't it suppose to federate to #ActivityPub natively? Welp, that never happened.
I'm disabling the #bridgy until there are other AT Protocol instances that aren't corporation involved.
If you're at #IJF25 next week, I'd love to say hi!
Particularly excited to chat about:
- Building a high-functioning technology culture
- #opensource for newsrooms
- Maintaining source anonymity
- The #fediverse / #atprotocol
- Collab with open source projects
But also, I'd love to hang out!
One of a number of take-aways from #ATmosphereConf —
I felt like Paul Frazee (from Bluesky Org) was encouraging people deploy their own relays.
And, to think of the Bluesky Firehose Relay of everything — as a temporary thing to use, when first developing you app or platform. And then later, to deploy your own relay.
One of a number of take-aways from #ATmosphereConf —
Bluesky might deal with their relay-problem by introducing an architecture that looks a lot like the Fediverse.
Rather than applications getting everything from the Firehose Relay — applications would get data directly from the relay.
Although, it wasn't quite clear when whether this would be 'pull' or 'push'.
But still, it is looking a lot more like the Fediverse's architecture at that point.
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