Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol

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* If you wanted to summarise this letter on a t-shirt, it would be “People > Protocols > Platforms”. *

Can I get this under Calvin pissing on a Disney logo?

Seriously, this is now my favorite summary of the fediverse.

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bsky is literally a non-profit, and all their shit is oss

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Bluesky is a for-profit public benefit corporation, but their stuff is open source. and ATproto is great.

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Oops, got the two mixed up, sorry

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Sign the petition! 🔞🧠🩸

never gonna

Venture Capitalists won't pay for not-invented-here jabber clones. So sure, sign a death warrant if you want to be targeted by signing an insignificant public list of who should Investors wet next.

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There does not have to be a “winning” protocol.

Actually, from the perspective of investors looking to make a profit off of Bluesky there does?

The ActivityPub people are naive as heck if they think this is an innocent situation, a LOT of money is at stake. Words about this just being a positive relationship are meaningless in reassurance.

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I agree. And If AT was fully divorced from bluesky/investors then this would be a completely different conversation.

I saw a breakdown of the true federation of AT and its mostly on one source.

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Yeah and like that is cool, all the smartest most hardworking people involved with ActivityPub can laugh in my face saying these are nonsense concerns and I will continue to be realistic about human beings, greed and money.

Of course the ActivityPub developers see it as a friendly relationship, this is what they are experts about why would corporations burn that bridge before they consolidate control?

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There doesn't have to be a "winning" protocol because insufferable obnoxious Twitter refugees need a home, and that home is Bluesky, which keeps literal millions of them the hell out of my fedi.

It's a good thing.

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I hope they're saying "the AT protocol is obviously an attempt by Twitter Rasputin to subvert the fediverse and create his own black-mirror version" and "while it might seem innocuous to just allow interoperability with the AT protocol, everything that strenghten the legitimacy of the AT protocol and works with it, empowers it, it is just another blitzscale play where you'll under discover the trap once it's too late"

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