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Why is Mastodon struggling to survive? (www.reddit.com)
submitted 1 month ago by thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I don't like the clickbait title at all -- Mastodon's clearly going to survive, at least for the forseeable future, and it wouldn't surprise me if it outlives Xitter.

Still, Mastodon is struggling; most of the people who checkd it out in the November 2022 surge (or the smaller June 2023 surge) didn't stick around, and numbers have been steadily declining for the last year. The author makes some good points, and some of the comments are excellent.

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[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Bluesky, using ATProto, which as near as I can tell is not used by anyone else, is not part of the fediverse as a result. Since both ActivityPub, and ATProto, and for that matter also Zot, are all open sourced protocols, it is my hope someone will build bridge software that incorporates and provides interoperability between both. Hubzilla would seem an ideal place for that to happen since that is already it's role, to bridge multiple protocols.

[–] nate@social.trom.tf 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

@nanook Actually, quick fun fact, there's already bridges. Bridgy Fed offers Activity Pub <> AT bridging, and Mostr offers Nostr <> Activity Pub bridging (and can be chained with Bridgy Fed to offer Nostr <> AT bridging). Not aware of any Zot bridges except the Hubzilla plugin that lets you follow AP users.

[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

@nate I attempted to locate AP plugin for hubzilla but could not, not in the addons, not mentioned on the hubzilla site, and could not find with gargoyle search. Can anyone tell me where to obtain?

[–] nate@social.trom.tf 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@nanook "Pubcrawl" is what you're looking for. Probably not the best SEO optimized name if you don't know it by name, but works well afaik.

framagit.org/hubzilla/addons/-…

[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 1 points 1 month ago

@nate Thanks but no. Pubcrawl is the ActivityPub protocol, I've got that and it talks to Friendica fine. What I am looking for is the plugin to talk to ATproto used by Bluesky.