"Let's spend $30m to fight the VC invested folks at #bluesky to make #ATproto what we want it to be, instead of giving that money to the people who have dedicated their lives to making #ActivityPub what we claim we want."
The fedi was built on blood and sweat. We can improve all the shortcomings people complain about for a fraction of what #FreeOurFeeds plans to invest.
If they are unsuccessful in this fight, do they admit it? How would that reflect on decentralized social media generally?
@wjmaggos the two aren't equivalent, though.
#Bluesky / #ATProto and #ActivityPub / #Fediverse are based on fundamentally different designs particularly with regard to the role of instances, not to even mention details of protocol signaling.
It's not the case that they could simply invest here rather than there. This place has its own issues that arguably make Bluesky the more attractive path to develop.
Just because people have dedicated their lives to one particular path doesn't mean it was the right path to take.
