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I've never been clear on why we should care about AT protocol. It's a VC funded effort which should immediately be suspicious for anyone wanting to build federa
by captainbland 2y ago
I've never been clear on why we should care about AT protocol. It's a VC funded effort which should immediately be suspicious for anyone wanting to build federated platforms.
- diggan 2y agoI'm excited about ATProto and I'm also suspicious, because they could eventually try to turn away from federation. Although so far, they seem to be moving in the other way, as they keep developing and launching more stuff that makes the services more decentralized, not less. I think it's healthy to be skeptical and suspicious about it, I am too. But I won't let that stop me from at least playing around with it and see where they go. Maybe one day they take the wrong turn, maybe not. They haven't so far, and I tend to wait to judge stuff based on what has happened rather than what could happen in the future.
- arccy 2y agoif what you care about is "federated platforms", you might not care much (or maybe you might realize ActivityPub scaling is problematic). many other people care more about "usable (right now) platforms".