Interesting take by Dave Winer (in audio, here’s the download link) about the sort of post-Twitter technical mess we might be in, specifically around ActivityPub and the complications of federation. I do worry about new standards being so difficult compared to the old social web.
Ricardo Mendes all very interesting points and I always like to hear Dave's opinions on these matters but for being a relatively early Bluesky users, I don't think their federation model is going to be comparable to ActivityPub, won't even be comparable because the execution of the idea will be different?
Manton Reece @rmdes Yes, Bluesky's idea of federation is different, not just because it doesn't use ActivityPub but also because it's structured differently. I think in the Bluesky world we'll see a few very large servers and many small "personal data servers".
Terence Personally, and as long as it remains fluid, this idea of a multitude of small PDSs seems ideal to me for so many good reasons!In that sense, I'm expecting a lot more from AtProto than ActivityPub, even though I know how important it is to develop different protocols.