In a wide-ranging interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of the decentralized social network Mastodon, Rochko shared why Threads federation fell flat, why ActivityPub and ATProto will likely never merge, and what it will take to grow the fediverse.
https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/
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@rolle Interesting that Mastodon didn't use ActivityPub originally. Did they have their own custom protocol then?
Edit: An early readme file says: "Based on ActivityStreams, Webfinger, PubsubHubbub and Salmon."
@rolle I think it's easier than that. Meta needed to claim interoperability so that they could stay clear of any EU DSA issues. With Trump re-elected that's not a concern anymore since they expect the EU to not dare to put any pressure on them.
Thus even the basic interoperability that was there is now no longer further developed.