RE: https://mastodon.social/@seboslaw/116053607853749962

If public funding is being considered for a for-profit model, a robust and transparent technical assessment should be conducted first, including an evaluation of whether the AT Protocol is truly more scalable than ActivityPub.

I disagree that the two are technically complementary. Currently, BlueSky operates as a largely centralized platform, allowing it to avoid many of the governance and moderation challenges inherent to decentralized networks.

Its growth, with ~40 million users, shows that strong product design, marketing, and familiar timelines attract nontechnical audiences. This is a lesson in usability and investment, not necessarily a protocol advantage.

If they complement each other, it is politically and socially, not architecturally. One has capital and media visibility. The other has a live, interoperable ecosystem in which public institutions are already participating.

Public funding decisions should be made accordingly.

#ATProtocol #ActivityPub #BlueSky #Mastodon #EU #DigitalSovereingty

Will Mastodon, the platform that keeps the #Fediverse alive, miss a strategic opportunity to bring official institutions on board at scale?

By watching how #EuroSky is being marketed compared to #Mastodon, it certainly seems that way.

I wish the folks at Mastodon would invest in more professional marketing, similar to what we're seeing from its rival, Bluesky.

There was a major meeting in the EU Parliament focused on this topic, yet there was no announcement or microblog post from Mastodon. Zero engagement.

Compare these two approaches:

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ituoear7k6qx3smjfoxhufm4/post/3me7pxwrgerri

#ActivityPub #ATProtocol #EU #lobby

New Blog post: I go over decentralized social media protocols like #nostr #ATProtocol and #ActivityPub and compare the tradeoffs between them.

https://blog.mauve.moe/posts/decentralized-social-media

New Blog post: I go over decentralized social media protocols like #nostr #ATProtocol and #ActivityPub and compare the tradeoffs between them.

https://blog.mauve.moe/posts/decentralized-social-media

https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/ has been switched over to new datasources for the social networks, coming from my own #fediverse crawler and #atprotocol observer. Improvements include better heuristics for fediverse user counts and real monthly active user stats for #bluesky/#atproto . I'm also making more raw data available, both for the most recent counts and historical data at https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/data/

Overall, doesn't change the conclusions much, but I'm very happy with these new datasources.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/115905739520020086

It does feel like #activitypub has been frozen in amber, maybe this will help. I'm hoping #mastodon developers get involved or its very hard to see how things will change.

Especially the Live Online Account Portability stuff which #atprotocol just has from the get go.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/115905739520020086

It does feel like #activitypub has been frozen in amber, maybe this will help. I'm hoping #mastodon developers get involved or its very hard to see how things will change.

Especially the Live Online Account Portability stuff which #atprotocol just has from the get go.

https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/ has been switched over to new datasources for the social networks, coming from my own #fediverse crawler and #atprotocol observer. Improvements include better heuristics for fediverse user counts and real monthly active user stats for #bluesky/#atproto . I'm also making more raw data available, both for the most recent counts and historical data at https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/data/

Overall, doesn't change the conclusions much, but I'm very happy with these new datasources.

If I try to view a post on Bluesky web-based app, while being logged in, I see the following age-gate (in the attached screen-shots) — and am prevented from seeing the post.

If I try to view the post without being logged in, I don't get the age-gate, and can just see the post.

#ATProto #ATProtocol #Bluesky #bsky #Privacy

The Bluesky Android mobile app is telling me I cannot use Bluesky unless I provide my date of birth.

(I haven't looked at Bluesky in a while — so, this might not be a new thing.)

I wonder if you can get around this by just installing an alternative (3rd party) Bluesky mobile app.

#ATProto #ATProtocol #Bluesky #bsky #Privacy

Eurosky dawns: Building Infrastructure for Sovereign Social Media – Open Future

Not sure how to take this: Mastodon already exists, it’s a European project and it’s struggling to take off.

I don’t think that the problem with Mastodon’s lack of adoption is the ActivityPub protocol. What advantages does the ATProtocol have that will lead to wider adoption?

developing alternative social media infrastructure that is not controlled by Big Tech or venture capital-backed US corporations, anchored within EU jurisdiction, and designed to foster a more pluralistic information ecosystem.

Source: Eurosky dawns: Building Infrastructure for Sovereign Social Media – Open Future

Eurosky dawns: Building Infrastructure for Sovereign Social Media – Open Future

Not sure how to take this: Mastodon already exists, it’s a European project and it’s struggling to take off.

I don’t think that the problem with Mastodon’s lack of adoption is the ActivityPub protocol. What advantages does the ATProtocol have that will lead to wider adoption?

developing alternative social media infrastructure that is not controlled by Big Tech or venture capital-backed US corporations, anchored within EU jurisdiction, and designed to foster a more pluralistic information ecosystem.

Source: Eurosky dawns: Building Infrastructure for Sovereign Social Media – Open Future

What will happen to the actual #Fediverse if Bluesky really succeeds as the mainstream federated social media platform with other interoperable apps?

#ATProtocol #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #BlueSky