The OStatus crowd made similar arguments when Mastodon added ActivityPub support. "We already have a protocol." "I don't know about this new upstart's motives

The OStatus crowd made similar arguments when Mastodon added ActivityPub support. "We already have a protocol." "I don't know about this new upstart's motives." I think it's good to have competing protocols at first. Platforms will eventually consolidate on one for a while like they did AP until something new comes along. I know the BlueSky people considered building on AP, so I'm curious to hear what it lacked that they think they can improve on. It could be that some new platform enabled by that new protocol drives a transition away from AP the way Mastodon did with OStatus.