Ancestors

Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-13 at 14:12

I wrote about FreeOurFeeds, a new $30M plan to take back social media from billionaires https://www.usermag.co/p/freeourfeeds-a-30m-plan-to-take-back-social-media-from-billionaires

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Written by eobet on 2025-01-13 at 14:57

@taylorlorenz wait, @pluralistic is supporting this and it's NOT based on #ActivityPub? What is the reason for that decision?

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2025-01-13 at 15:40

@eobet @taylorlorenz

As I have repeatedly written, I would LOVE to use Bluesky but will not until they make good on their promise of adding federation, so that I can costlessly leave if they mismanage the service. This letter calls on them to do so. I like Activitypub because it's federated, not because it's Activitypub. I would like any other service if they were also federated a la Activitypub.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/

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Written by Alfredo Natale on 2025-01-13 at 16:05

@pluralistic @eobet @taylorlorenz I don't understand if federation is really possible between AT relays. Each relay should contain a copy of the whole network, but how ?

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Written by william.maggos on 2025-01-13 at 16:19

@pluralistic @eobet @taylorlorenz

I don't think that's clear but seeing your name made me think again about what I was reading and this reasoning popped up. I have a hard time believing that most of the others joining this effort make that distinction. any chance of working within the group to get it to focus on AP instead, since there'd be a lot less effort involved? you'd just have to promote AP instead of getting AT folks to do so much tech revision (against invested VC interests)?

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Written by EpicBear on 2025-01-13 at 23:57

@wjmaggos @pluralistic @eobet @taylorlorenz Yeah I don't get the buy in to Bluesky at the moment considering we already have a federated technology in #ActivityPub. I just don't see how Bluesky meets the main goal of taking back our public square considering both the underlying AT protocol and their overall current direction of pushing effectively a single instance that's still "too big to fail".

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