> You might suspect that OP has a familiarity bias here but actually there is objective evidence that ActivityPub based implementations are (relatively) simple:

> You might suspect that OP has a familiarity bias here but actually there is objective evidence that ActivityPub based implementations are (relatively) simple: there are dozens of implementations of both servers and clients, will all sorts of functionality that is not emulating the "twitter/mastodon" experience. Heck, even a Wordpress plugin in the works. AT Protocol has a very active ecosystem already too (even though Bluesky is still invite-only): https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto-ecosystem https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto-ecosystem And this isn't a complete list; there's a very active Discord for people doing bluesky projects which currently has 1.2k+ members