@rolle

we're stuck because we haven't seen much decentralization of the ATmosphere yet and bluesky isn't even sustainable yet. everybody has their theories on how this will go but that's all they are. and that really sucks because it means that people who might otherwise get behind AP, have good reason to wait. the entry of bluesky into the space has slowed everything down, even as they seem to have gotten lots more people on social media built on an open protocol. frustrating as hell.

@rolle

The only thing AT currently has over ActivityPub is identity portability on someone else’s server. I don’t want to run my own instance, there are lots of useful economies of scale from sharing an instance with a load of other people. With ActivityPub, I can move to a new instance but my handle changes. Followers are migrated, but posts are not. There are proposals to fix this with cooperating servers. Making it work with uncooperative servers (e.g. the instance admin shuts down with no notice) is harder and it would be great to see ActivityPub close that gap.

@rolle there used to be a plan for Bsky to communicate with ActivityPub, no? That didn't materialize? But Threads does, right? I'm not very much in the loop.

@rolle Wow, I'm surprised it is even possible to run your own ATProto stack. At what cost though? Last time I checked, you needed terabytes of storage, and I imagine it has gotten exponentially worse.

What are we looking at, hundreds of Euros a month?