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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/494473
Compared against the predominant incumbent social media platforms, the fediverse is very small.
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Why bluesky and threads should embrace ActivityPub.
Social media is splintering - accelerated by the fall of Twitter. It’s not 2010 and a social media network is never going to be what twitter was in 2010. They’ll might as well develop social media that can talk to other networks
Bluesky are never going to embrace ActivityPub… They’ve got their own separate federation protocol.
Bride protocols?
Yes, but I’m hoping they’ll ever find a way to bridge both or change their mind.
Their protocol (called the “Authenticated Transfer Protocol” or “AT Protocol” for short) fixes some issues that ActivityPub has.
For example, you can use your own domain name as your handle, even if you’re not hosting the server yourself. This makes your username portable - you can move to a different server but keep the same username. You just need to update some DNS records. It’s not possible to move server but keep the same username with ActivityPub, since your username is always at the server’s domain name.
What I’m hoping is that the developers of ActivityPub take some ideas onboard, but it’ll be hard given the current design of the protocol. Maybe we’ll get a new version of ActivityPub one day.