I know that this will most likely get me a ton of downvotes, but I’m genuinely curious: should ActivityPub and ATProtocol potentially be merged into one unified protocol?
If they were combined, Fediverse users and ATmosphere users could enjoy the benefits of each other’s ecosystems—like richer content interaction, better moderation tools, and more seamless identity management.
Bluesky and Mastodon users could interact natively without relying on bridging bots like Bridgy Fed.
Would merging the protocols strengthen decentralized social media, or would it create more complexity and friction between communities?
I’d love to hear your thoughts.
I don’t know, if this is technically feasible.
It’s not
That is the opposite of what this thread is about.
No, it’s really not; this is exactly what this thread is about if you apply a little foresight
No. You don’t want bluesky making decisions on ap. It will end up in a Microsoft situation.
I think ATProtocol is doomed, so no.
Bluesky got too big too fast and has too many greedy corporate weasels already involved. For the time being, they’re pretending to actually prefer an open protocol, but I think that’s just a marketing ploy and it will never last. They’re going to EEE it sooner or later.
i’m fine with a bridge
This is the way.
@Teknevra What about just using both #friendica has a plugin to support #at (as well as #rss and others)
wafrn connects to both too
this question is basically equivalent to asking “should Rust and Kotlin be merged into a single language?”. the two protocols are VERY different on a foundamential level, merging them is just not possible without very deep changes. the closest one can get is either using an application which implements both protocols, or use a bridge.
The two side philosophy and ideology is too different to for this to happen
For my own project I’m looking for a way to be protocol agnostic and support either, and ideally more. If you have ideas https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/biggu_s_gate/issues/24 please let me know.
both do have scaling issues it seems, maybe some large scale investment would be nice - surely there’s some rich tech bros out there with cash burning a hole in their wallets
They’d use that money to turn it back into twitter.
