Despite delays, the plan to connect Tumblr's blogging site to the wider world of decentralized social media, also known as the "fediverse," is still on,
Federation is planned, but there are still behaviors of atproto that are as of yet undefined, and need to be defined and ironed out before Bluesky’s primary network is open to federation.
Bluesky is building their own thing, called the Authenticated Transfer Protocol, or
atprotofor short.Federation is planned, but there are still behaviors of
atprotothat are as of yet undefined, and need to be defined and ironed out before Bluesky’s primary network is open to federation.