Bridgy Fed, which is working to connect the social network Bluesky with the wider fediverse (i.e., the open social web), which includes sites like Mastodon and others, will be the first app incubated within a new nonprofit called A New Social. The organization, announced Tuesday, aims to bring together developers, researchers, startups, and industry leaders building infrastructure for the open social web, including those adopting protocols like Bluesky’s AT Protocol and ActivityPub, which powers Mastodon, Meta’s Threads, and the rest of the fediverse.

Fun fact: If you use software that support following people like MBin, you can bridge your account too and follow BlueSky folk

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[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

Ah yes, Threads, a great example of the open web!

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Threads is a great example of a company acknowledging that the open web exists and bringing content people want to places where they want to be. I'd like to be able to interact with everyone through one or two accounts, not have to maintain a Meta account, an Mbin account, a Google account, and all the rest.

You may not like it, but I believe the open web is about things like Threads being federated - individual platforms interacting freely, no matter who built them.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah. Peoples concerns around Meta and EEE notwithstanding, ActivityPub is an open standard maintained by the W3C. It's meant to be used by anyone and everyone, just like HTTP is. The desire is to give options that esshew social silos, not to create social wilderness outside of the corporate city states

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Had a typo in there. It's eschew

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