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Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?
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this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
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Not really that hard to explain, unless I'm missing your point. Wafrn is a federated Tumblr-like platform that allows two-way interaction with Bluesky users (without the need for bridging).
There's way more to Wafrn than that, and it's extremely interesting.
You can treat Wafrn like an independent ATProto platform (like Blacksky). It has its own PDS and AppView (which uses Blacksky's Relay), so it's not at all dependent on Bluesky for obtaining posts (assuming those posts are also published on an independent PDS).
What's unique is that Wafrn is actually ActivityPub-first, meaning it doesn't have any issue interacting with Mastodon users, but doesn't have all the same features of a normal ATProto platform. For example must have your account on Wafrn in order to use it (as opposed to blacksky.community, which lets you sign in with an existing account on another ATProto platform); you can, however, sign into bsky.app (or blacksky) with an account created on Wafrn.