so what is this #wafrn thing i keep seeing everywhere

so what is this #wafrn thing i keep seeing everywhere

it looked like new regular fedi software at first but i get the bluesky corporate ick from how its marketed, just some other psyop project trying to divide-and-conquer the fediverse

is it actually another good-faith, free software, #ActivityPub #Fediverse software project, or just yet another new attempt at splitting the fediverse? i dont really have the energy right now to dig into it

@lianna Wafrn is fantastic software, and its developer @gabboman is fantastic, both personally and technologically.

Wafrn isn't the only software that allows you to communicate with the Bluesky world. Friendica also offers the ability to connect to a Bluesky account, enabling even greater capabilities than other Bluesky clients. Similarly, bridgy.fed has allowed all fediverse users to connect to the Bluesky world via a bridge.

But Wafrn has taken a quantum leap: when you install a Wafrn instance, you create a server federated with the Fediverse via Activitypub, but you can also simultaneously install a parallel server that acts as a Bluesky node. This way, just like Friendica, Wafrn becomes a client for a Bluesky account, but the main difference with Friendica is that the Bluesky account you use is that of your "parallel server," a server federated with other Bluesky servers via the AT protocol.

@notizie @gabboman I just really don't see the point in software purposefully connecting me to a hostile, for-profit, right-wing social network and its technology. I'd rather stay on ActivityPub until a better replacement protocol comes around.

A Tumblr-like federated platform would be amazing though, I'd host that.

@lianna@micro.webgarden.click @notizie@poliverso.org

you can host it without bluesky.

but bluesky is not a right wing social network. nostr is, and we do not connect with that.

atproto is a different protocol, with different tradeoffs. some stuff does better (account migration), some stuff does worse (follower only posts? HAHAHAHAH).