@standard.site is very cool! put together this little diagram: #atproto

I love #activitypub but seeing how slow its development is compared to #atproto makes it hard to be excited about it. This goes for both protocol development and ecosystem development.

ATproto has many cool projects popping up every month, the vision is clear and platforms integrate with each other.

I don't see this excitement and work on the ActivityPub side :(

@standard.site is very cool! put together this little diagram: #atproto

Is social media its own thing or is it an attention layer for the open web? Is it mostly about these separate things we call posts, or should every piece of writing or audio or video be able to be boosted itself?

I think that's the divide between #ATproto and #ActivityPub. #bluesky wants to dominate a world of posts like Gmail dominates email etc. Social running on a protocol but one company decides most people's experience. Or should we give the public full control over what media goes viral?

Is social media its own thing or is it an attention layer for the open web? Is it mostly about these separate things we call posts, or should every piece of writing or audio or video be able to be boosted itself?

I think that's the divide between #ATproto and #ActivityPub. #bluesky wants to dominate a world of posts like Gmail dominates email etc. Social running on a protocol but one company decides most people's experience. Or should we give the public full control over what media goes viral?

I'm somewhat inclined to disable bridging for my own account; it feels like it's providing legitimacy to BlueSky making claims about "federation" and "decentralization".

Whereas the reality is that #BlueSky is a walled garden, #ATproto has zero independent actually deployed sites, and is headed the way of it's predecessor (including political biases in post suppression).

The decentralized social media movement chose the path of reboot with #bluesky. Roll out a new protocol capable of decentralization but not decentralized yet...so normies would know where to join, search could be simple and there wouldn't be different implementations leading to stuff not working perfectly.

But with more stuff being built on #ATproto, that honeymoon is ending. It's going to have the same problems that the fedi does.

We must accept complexity and educate instead.

#SocialWeb

I'm somewhat inclined to disable bridging for my own account; it feels like it's providing legitimacy to BlueSky making claims about "federation" and "decentralization".

Whereas the reality is that #BlueSky is a walled garden, #ATproto has zero independent actually deployed sites, and is headed the way of it's predecessor (including political biases in post suppression).