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(DIR) Post #AydNK1KcZJL42Ht29o by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T14:23:35Z
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Would you like to see full default interoperability between #ATproto and #ActivityPub without a bridge? (what's preventing this...)
(DIR) Post #AydP78Ukp7leOebtsu by evan@cosocial.ca
2025-09-27T14:43:44Z
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@wjmaggos That doesn't make any sense; it's like saying that you want Chinese and Spanish to be mutually intelligible. You could try to combine the two languages into one mixed thing, but that resulting language would be neither Chinese nor Spanish.
(DIR) Post #AydSv7Ud7g9VdA4tU0 by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T15:26:23Z
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@evan ok. so would the closest to this be getting apps to do the bridging?of course I used to ask both threads and bluesky to do this, until my Instagram account got suspended. they never told me why but I assume they considered me spam. bluesky marks me as spam sometimes.
(DIR) Post #AydUHOWOalAUli5a9A by mcc@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T15:41:44Z
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@wjmaggos "what's preventing this?"atproto is designed in a way hostile to integration with external systems. The point of atproto is "a big central server collects literally all the information and then you query that server for whatever you want"*. For it to talk to a decentralized system efficiently you almost have to change it into something else* It's actually a little less convenient than this, but space
(DIR) Post #AydUMpNWANJ3VlWkb2 by blaine@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T15:34:09Z
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@evan @wjmaggos you're making a category error, Evan.People who aren't us don't give even the tiniest shits about which protocols they're using. 5G phones happily talk to 2G phones over SS7, and the only thing anyone knows about "5G" is that it's "fast" – and they don't even know what that means.You just said approx. "that doesn't make any sense; it's like saying that you want NG-RAN and SS7 to be mutually intelligible" and people will care about as much as someone who literally says that.
(DIR) Post #AydUMqIwirFANsOc6q by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T15:42:36Z
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@blaine @evan but that assumes there won't be any appreciable experiential diff. at this point, I think there will be. I don't expect anything like fully independent news or government servers on AT.see @mondoweiss trying to use AT and consider pressure from Israel on most relays. their ability to get a critical story to go viral would be crushed.arguing over protocols should be focused on why we care about decentralization. which model will be most likely to get us the future we want.
(DIR) Post #AydUMtLXPg6DomdE48 by blaine@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T15:36:59Z
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@evan @wjmaggos (i.e. not at all)It makes plenty sense to make BlueSky and Mastodon interoperable, even if it involves protocol-level translation. Doing so is, frankly, easy, and much easier than the very common approach of translating between Spanish and Chinese (which is what we normally do to communicate instead of inventing a Spanish/Chinese pidgin, which is also a thing humans do!).
(DIR) Post #AydV3MiGcRlN3kW3Xs by blaine@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T15:42:21Z
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@evan @wjmaggos where the real "human-level" challenge is is that e.g. Mastodon and BlueSky are different, culturally, and so are "the Fediverse" and "Truth Social" and any combination of separate servers that we can imagine, or even two random servers *within* the Mastodon-running-Fediverse. Mastodon and Bluesky are way more similar than Pixelfed, and it makes much less sense to federate Pixelfed and Mastodon than it does Mastodon and Bluesky, because they serve different social purposes.
(DIR) Post #AydV3OCn4RlzghnwlE by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T15:50:18Z
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@blaine @evan I never see the conversations about social purpose.
(DIR) Post #AydVgeiVcBNwBvMe7k by blaine@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T15:57:22Z
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@wjmaggos @evan 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 I've been banging on about this for sadly, literally decades now. I'm 100000000% convinced that this is the conversation we need to have if we want to make decentralization relevant to people (and it's not going to be framed in terms of decentralization).
(DIR) Post #AydWwtBxfGjHfkReNc by evan@cosocial.ca
2025-09-27T15:58:24Z
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@blaine @wjmaggos so, how could you change your message to be more effective and reach people better?
(DIR) Post #AydWwuQt3GGLWKR5Hc by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T16:11:29Z
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@evan @blaine so don't we have to propose visions and see which ones make the most sense, are most popular, are compatible?what's special about social media is the boost. virality. not community or the public square. making it decentralized without algos or ads puts the people fully in control. collectively we can determine what info, ideas and art gets the most attention. I think that's the revolution @rabble talks about. I call it #DemocracyOfReach.which protocol makes that most likely?
(DIR) Post #AydXE7mkeykFr7s704 by evan@cosocial.ca
2025-09-27T16:14:34Z
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@wjmaggos @blaine I was talking about Blaine's important message to developers and technologists, about focusing on human needs.
(DIR) Post #AydXn0a7R2rBeJb46q by evan@cosocial.ca
2025-09-27T16:04:20Z
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@blaine @wjmaggos it's a poll about protocols, which names the protocols. I think the audience for this poll is one that is aware of protocols.
(DIR) Post #AydXn1sEdAwTen52zA by blaine@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T16:09:26Z
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@evan @wjmaggos I think you've misread the intent of the poll. The end user experience right now is "if you'd like to communicate across party lines, go install a bridge"; the question the poll is asking is "would you like to be able to communicate across party lines without setting up a bridge?"
(DIR) Post #AydXn2qV179EfhHAv2 by evan@cosocial.ca
2025-09-27T16:16:59Z
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@blaine @wjmaggos The first question asked by the poll is "Would you like to see full default interoperability between #ATproto and #ActivityPub without a bridge?" The second question is "what's preventing this".
(DIR) Post #AydXn3krdYEbUVeBm4 by blaine@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T16:19:25Z
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@evan @wjmaggos you're reading it as a technologist – I agree with you that making atproto and activitypub literally interoperable is ... weird (although, I have argued many times that I think the two protocols will converge in functionality and scope, and also separately that lens-based translation of data structures is basically the best thing and would smooth right over the lexicon/AS differences if we had good tooling).
(DIR) Post #AydXn4ODHFi5SY3c6i by blaine@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T16:20:02Z
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@evan @wjmaggos ... but that's not what the question is asking. It's intent, and the #atproto and #activitypub in the question aren't referring to specifications, they're referring to communities.
(DIR) Post #AydXn56Ados7escici by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T16:20:53Z
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@blaine @evan sorry, I think I confused everything with my poll.
(DIR) Post #AydYGm7DmgbPTGH3M8 by evan@cosocial.ca
2025-09-27T15:57:35Z
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@blaine @wjmaggos making BlueSky and Mastodon compatible without a bridge is a great goal! As an added benefit, BlueSky would become compatible with the 100+ other ActivityPub implementations, like Pixelfed, Threads, Flipboard, Ghost, and WordPress.
(DIR) Post #AydYGmnPFqLXa60k6q by blaine@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T16:02:57Z
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@evan @wjmaggos reframed, just for fun: making Mastodon etc compatible with atproto would do similar!
(DIR) Post #AydYGnV0djDzlKPZ4a by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
2025-09-27T16:26:29.446269Z
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The one thing is that atproto as designed is effectively centrally managed and top down.For fun, we can think about three different protocols in the way that they function. ActivityPub, atproto, and nostr.Nostr would be the most decentralized and most individualist. You don't even pick a single server, you pick on number of different relays which will accept your messages and provide messages to you. It really doesn't matter if in the end which individual relays you pick because in practice it's just a ledger with all the messages that it received, and the protocol itself handles identity through your secret key. If the relay that you were using goes down, your user experience doesn't even notice because there's probably 10 others.ATproto would be the least decentralized and most collective. It is hypothetically possible to host your own instance, but in practice user management and a lot of other stuff is Central to the main Bluesky organization. Getting banned or getting blocked or whatever, it's not that different from Facebook in that regard. If the main Bluesky service goes down, it will effectively mean the end of bluesky.ActivityPub would be somewhere in between. You have individual servers that people will pick one or multiple, there is a centralized point where your identity lives, and each server has its own moderation policies and administrator team. If one server goes down, everyone on that server loses access to the fediverse on that server and they also lose their identity from that server, but they can very easily go somewhere else. If mastodon.social goes down, a lot of accounts will become inaccessible but the broader fediverse will be unaffected.Bridges are obviously possible between the three because we see it, but I tend to think that the three are mutually exclusive and mutually incompatible in their aims and technical details such that integrating any two immediately means giving up some of what that protocol is trying to do.
(DIR) Post #AydYHYtmPRxullMVhw by blaine@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T16:26:24Z
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@wjmaggos @evan I think it was perfect. This whole conversation has lit a fire under my butt. Partially because any confusion really highlights this challenge we have in this space, where we're trying to navigate social problems with technological solutions, and one of the big barriers is that *that* means getting technologists to see beyond the bits AND getting "everyone else" to care about the technology.
(DIR) Post #AydYztYYxvOxa1ZsnI by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T16:34:23Z
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@chris @evan @blaine but I also care what either of them becoming dominant might mean for the larger culture. I don't see the media decentralization we need (obvious under the Trump admin) as likely if AT "wins". but maybe I'm wrong. but unless we have a goal like that and not just decentralization, I don't know why the argument matters except for technologists. it has to something concrete like that. and things like enabling community is fine but that's available in other ways etc.
(DIR) Post #AydZ22MRCZjFSvvZrM by leroy@indiehackers.social
2025-09-27T16:34:52Z
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@wjmaggos purely personally, I don’t see significant value from this.More people to follow? Don’t care, I don’t follow everyone on mastodon, I’m already missing out gems.More people follow me? I don’t care, my account isn’t used to drive any economical value.I can see there being frustrations as protocols fail to work with each other. Or as funded tries to absorb ‘free’.Or culture shifting towards more hustle due to the nature of ATp being more about money generation.
(DIR) Post #AydZNlNl0c9FB5u9QW by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T16:38:49Z
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@leroy to me, the point of social media is virality. the boosts. having the best info, ideas and art spread most widely. it's why cities generally improved the human experience. for that, I want everyone involved.
(DIR) Post #AydZtcOlwfTEaAZLhw by leroy@indiehackers.social
2025-09-27T16:44:29Z
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@wjmaggos I don’t think a bridge is necessary for that though. As it’s not that APp is exclusionary from a technical standpoint (although it is socially).My worry is that a bridge will not result in best info and ideas. Instead it will homogenize ideas around a local peak of ‘best’.With separation we have two local peaks of best and sometimes one side is better, sometimes the other. But we can learn from each other.
(DIR) Post #AydZtnPsyrtgkoAtTE by leroy@indiehackers.social
2025-09-27T16:44:30Z
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Eg, Vancouver sky train developed after seeing the nightmare of highway traffic in LA.A local decision can be made based on learning from another. In one mega city, that be much harder to do due to increasing layers of bureaucracy
(DIR) Post #AydaRoMbxvPPXNrYfY by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T16:50:45Z
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@leroy sorry, best is shorthand. there will be multiple very goods. but I want the people who disagree to engage each other, not be on different services. I really wish we had reddit style comment ratings. I don't like that we're doing the separation via politics. our moderation could be better.
(DIR) Post #AydbIZ4dXlbNSrbtHU by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T17:00:15Z
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@chris @evan @blaine or YouTube. everybody saying follow Kimmel there are deeply naive.
(DIR) Post #AydbXLlBKHuAW4Ynlg by blaine@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T17:02:54Z
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@wjmaggos @chris @evan Google would never!
(DIR) Post #Aydd2GHbq6KqSe2208 by evan@cosocial.ca
2025-09-27T17:18:23Z
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@chris @blaine @wjmaggos it's funny that you say "without bridges" and "however that may happen" in the same breath. If we don't care how it happens, why rule out one particularly powerful technique for interoperability?BridgyFed works GREAT. It's fucking amazing. Is there room for improvement? Absolutely. But it's a really good service.
(DIR) Post #Aydd2HyBZHzDgyxY0G by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T17:19:43Z
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@evan @chris @blaine it is amazing. I guess my problem is that it's opt in.*ducks*
(DIR) Post #AyddFmr23EaxFB39Ye by evan@cosocial.ca
2025-09-27T17:22:09Z
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@wjmaggos @chris @blaine one of my big problems with it too. I think @anewsocial are aware of that limitation and are working on some solutions.
(DIR) Post #AydedJJ1fBLKVMvNIG by timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-09-27T17:32:00Z
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@blaine @wjmaggos @evan I'm clinging to “decentralization” as part of my answer to the “What's this Fedimoose thing you keep talking about and why should I care?” because the best explanation I have found is "social networks suck, except for one social network that's been working OK for 40 years, namely email. Why doesn't email suck? Because it's decentralized, nobody owns it."
(DIR) Post #AydedKq1xxL1G1NFNQ by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T17:37:39Z
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@timbray @blaine @evan so just use email. /snarksorry I'm trying to spark the deep conversation about why we should care about social media decentralization. what does it provide us? what do we imagine it could provide us? is there a difference between social networking and social media?but I've made my case.
(DIR) Post #Aydf3TEVNRUUp3HfRA by issdeinschnitzel@gleasonator.com
2025-09-27T17:42:35.831316Z
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@sj_zero @blaine @evan @wjmaggos I think you could just do what Zuckerberg did: Make Bluesky an Activitypub server. They still could control their own blocking list against unwanted Mastodon server.
(DIR) Post #AydfOwY1a2xfp1eY9Q by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T17:46:14Z
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@chris @SnowyCA @evan @blaine yes but size matters. I think we'd all like to be able to see some threads or bluesky users and not others. that they had separate servers with different moderation rules and we could respond accordingly.
(DIR) Post #AydfdXpLlzYVUpifIm by SnowyCA@social.vivaldi.net
2025-09-27T16:29:47Z
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@chris @evan @blaine @wjmaggos With the overwhelming number of bots, trolls and right wing extremists on Bluesky? NO I DO NOT WANT BLUESKY TO TALK TO FEDI WITHOUT A BRIDGE
(DIR) Post #AydfdZ1RKWovCcNpmi by mackuba@martianbase.net
2025-09-27T17:46:49Z
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@SnowyCA @chris @evan @blaine @wjmaggos I honestly don't remember when was the last time I saw a single right-wing extremist on Bluesky…
(DIR) Post #AydfdaGMiWLz3CNGgi by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T17:48:53Z
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@mackuba @SnowyCA @chris @evan @blaine don't get me even higher up on my soapbox.moderation for views vs harassment etc...
(DIR) Post #AydhAX0HxKRiS783Rw by mackuba@martianbase.net
2025-09-27T17:59:06Z
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@evan @blaine @wjmaggos One possible problem with that is that even if that happened, this would mean that when one random person follows you from Bluesky, all your future posts would become visible in the open on a public website and the global firehose and to the 30M+ Bluesky users. From what I know about Mastodon users, a lot of them would probably not like that… (since a lot of them very loudly objected specifically to that when Snarfed wanted Bridgy to work this way at first).
(DIR) Post #AydhAYXeEmizDrkD5M by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T18:06:09Z
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@mackuba @evan @blaine another question related to the why discussion.is this a public medium like blogging or is the goal more private, your chosen community and conversations? the former I call social media vs the latter being social networking. old school twitter vs the friends, family and groups on Facebook.
(DIR) Post #AydjW5wRS6rknfjuwC by jornane@ipv6.social
2025-09-27T18:32:17Z
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@wjmaggos What’s preventing this: this has many answers, but one way this could be done is by doing exactly what Threads has been doing, by just implementing ActivityPub.Since Bluesky has a de-facto centralised component bsky.app that does interoperability between their “instances” or how do they call it. That centralised component can also do transparent ActivityPub bridging.
(DIR) Post #AydjWEfP0paFrQpw80 by jornane@ipv6.social
2025-09-27T18:32:17Z
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@wjmaggos The opposite would be more complex; if every ActivityPub also would need to talk to bsky.app, that would be a level of control many Fediverse admins would be uncomfortable with. LComing up with an alternative to bsky.app I don’t know exactly what would be needed, but I understand it would be a massive application and thus expensive to maintain, not something your little Fediverse admin could pay for.
(DIR) Post #Aydqi7BpKx6LpEcAcK by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T19:52:55Z
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@wjmaggos @evan @blaine @rabble > what's special about social media is the boost. virality. not communitythis is a pretty good summary of why i hate that social media is the dominant paradigm. i'm not here for "content", i'm here for "people"
(DIR) Post #AydrIF35av54cnkozI by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T19:59:26Z
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@wjmaggos @timbray @blaine @evan just use email /srseven so, email's problems these days are that power has concentrated in the hands of a few providers who make it hard for anyone new to get started because of all the antispam policies and opaque enforcement of such. but assuming you have deliverability, email works for pretty much anything, to varying degrees of automation.
(DIR) Post #AydsMuAmjnzdHW8pHs by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T20:11:28Z
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@wjmaggos @mackuba @evan @blaine it's all about context. context is everything. unfortunately, context collapse is the norm.i think it should be apparent that someone who primarily or exclusively posts publicly is not going to have their needs align broadly with someone who primarily or exclusively posts privately.the goal is whatever people want it to be. both are possible. practically speaking, i do not want "fully public" and "300 characters", so atp/bsky is a complete non-starter for me.
(DIR) Post #AydsgfeaQihm2gVQJM by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T20:15:08Z
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@trwnh @evan @blaine @rabble but don't we have other more closed systems that allow us to choose community. the web provides free speech to everyone. revolutionary. the social web adds an attention layer to that where everyone gets a say. another revolution.we need other stuff also but this potential is something I don't want to squander, esp when I don't think it means being unable to do the other stuff also.I go back to the Iraq War and knowing elite info control led to that disaster.
(DIR) Post #Aydt3cM0rcMyT9lBQG by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T20:19:13Z
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@wjmaggos @evan @blaine @rabble the web can provide access control too! the real "social web" is less about attention to me and more about letting people participate across websites. in that regard, a standard for identity is the most important missing piece. (consider hypothetically, we could expand on WWW-Authenticate and Authorization headers to negotiate identity for an individual HTTP request.)
(DIR) Post #AydtZXclz4fB4Dp0ng by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T20:25:03Z
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@trwnh @evan @blaine @rabble too technical for me. all I know is I can boost a really important story I find and it can go viral and change the narrative about an important issue. even if very wealthy/powerful don't want it too. or at least that would be possible if everybody was here. and even moreso if fedi was a more important part of how we all handled news instead of outlets with owners with merger and political concerns.
(DIR) Post #AydtyjJdeXTEZCsmps by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T20:29:30Z
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@wjmaggos @evan @blaine @rabble that's more a matter of how current software like Mastodon is built to disregard the entire web and only consider a tiny fraction of it.i can "boost" something on my website by linking to it. i can even embed a preview if i feel like it. software can be written to make this one button press just like on Mastodon if we wished.
(DIR) Post #Ayduy6frQB6ufzXlEu by DarthAstrius@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T20:40:40Z
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@wjmaggos BlueSky is driven by profit, while Mastodon and other ActivityPub spaces (for the most part) are driven by the people.
(DIR) Post #AydvRTnGXi2YmI0t6G by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-27T20:46:01Z
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@DarthAstrius their business model concerns me, absolutely.
(DIR) Post #AyhpD0fqBrCbJl65Hk by quillmatiq@mastodon.social
2025-09-29T17:35:29Z
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@evan @wjmaggos @chris @blaine @anewsocial Appreciate all the kind words in the thread! That said, I still strongly believe opt-in is a feature, not a bug. The right solution isn't to force people onto networks they don't want to be a part of; it's to clean up the rough edges of unbridged interactions and content so it makes less of a difference.
(DIR) Post #AyhpD2DuQg327i2o1g by quillmatiq@mastodon.social
2025-09-29T17:39:55Z
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@evan @wjmaggos @chris @blaine @anewsocial I understand the instinct of "make these work together", but there are technical and cultural differences that make it more than just two standards talking to each other. A couple of simple examples are "I don't want to be in a public, auditable firehose" or "I had a bad experience there, I don't trust them with my safety."
(DIR) Post #AyhpD35RDerknj5YSe by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-29T17:54:57Z
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@quillmatiq @evan @chris @blaine @anewsocial I understand if you don't want to have the conversation but these are public systems like blogging with your email address available, we just don't think of them like that. it's old school twitter, not even your network of friends and family on facebook. not having algos/ads doesn't mean everything isn't boostable to the world by default. maybe people want to use something designed to be inherently private, but that's not fedi etc. IMHO
(DIR) Post #Ayhpao8uQrsDP32csK by quillmatiq@mastodon.social
2025-09-29T17:59:15Z
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@wjmaggos @evan @chris @blaine @anewsocial I agree with you there! But often it's not about *how* public things are, it's more about *where* they're public. In other words, many users I've spoken to who are either not bridged or are straight-up anti-bridge have chosen that route because they don't (yet) trust the entities on the other side to have that much ownership over their data. There's also a cohort who don't want to have to depend on *us* to bridge them either.It's a lot more complex!
(DIR) Post #AyhqKfxZBkehLRbj2e by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-29T18:07:33Z
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@quillmatiq @evan @chris @blaine @anewsocial they're public on the internet! screenshots?I think the complexity is mostly about having so few people here and thinking it will stay that way. that being here is safety through obscurity. that a fedi server is a community instead of much more a portal to a possibly universal social media network. they built and maintained this place (huge kudos!) to get away, but actually made the best network not to.they need a fork that's default opt in.
(DIR) Post #AyhrUC3DLNmJQyLqRE by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-29T18:20:25Z
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@quillmatiq @evan @chris @blaine @anewsocial same with the moderation.preventing people from being able to tag you with a slur etc will lead to growth, but preventing people from being able to state their unpopular opinion to no in particular will isolate us. I don't think people choose these approaches to keep us small, they just don't want to stumble on stuff that will upset them. they want this place cozy.but we have to do that browsing the web. it's essential to civics.sorry. /rant
(DIR) Post #AyhsY1aeHKNi6SNfdY by quillmatiq@mastodon.social
2025-09-29T18:32:21Z
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@wjmaggos @evan @chris @blaine @anewsocial Huge difference between screenshotting vs always being a part of another network and another organization's infrastructure by default.To be clear, I don't agree with Fediverse platforms depending on a blocklists, I much prefer approve-lists, but I don't think that's a popular opinion either.
(DIR) Post #Ayp4iAdi2yJIcb8Vwe by ammaratef45@social.coop
2025-10-03T05:51:35Z
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@wjmaggos before I vote, what does this mean technically? The way I understand it is that AP is message passing and ATProto is shared heap, how would they become interoperable without a bridge unless you change the specs of one or both of them?
(DIR) Post #Ayp7zm1EckUhKyE2cq by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-10-03T06:28:22Z
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@ammaratef45 yea IDKhttps://cosocial.ca/@evan/115276790114578460
(DIR) Post #Ayp8pwwpEg9CI62hNo by ammaratef45@social.coop
2025-10-03T06:37:49Z
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@wjmaggos a mastodon instance doing translation from ATProto to AP would be like it running both protocols (unless im misunderstanding), given how insanely expensive it is to run a blusky instance (perhaps why we got only one instance of it) that is a suicide move by Mastodon to do it (I took mastodon and blusky here as examples)The shared heap is pretty large and is growing and AP prides itself in the ability for it to be deployed on stuff like a raspberry piSo my vote will be no
(DIR) Post #AypuimBhdeREgxe8ye by light@noc.social
2025-10-03T13:40:38Z
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@issdeinschnitzel @evan @wjmaggos @blaine @sj_zero How?
(DIR) Post #AypuineoAvJXFWGtyy by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
2025-10-03T15:34:39.180399Z
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It'd be really straightforward, if not necessarily easy.Minds implemented ActivityPub and nostr support, not much different here I'd suspect.
(DIR) Post #AypyZKvq0PIjMyypFo by issdeinschnitzel@gleasonator.com
2025-10-03T16:17:47.243374Z
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@sj_zero @light @evan @wjmaggos @blaine I think it would be much easier. As an virtually centralized service they could just change their own protocol to Activitypub. But you are right, they should also be able to support multiple protocols like Friendica and Minds do.