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> Agreed. I don't understand why so many are choosing to rally around Bluesky and its AT Protocol

I think one of the major parts that resonates with people is the focus on data portability. AFAIK, ActivityPub doesn't help with wanting to move your data somewhere, without having to manually perform a async migration.

> which is promising federation but has yet to deliver

They seem to surely but slowly make headway on the federation stuff, there are more and more successful experiments of people hooking into the network.

> it is backed by a for-profit company that has all the incentive to enshittify much like Facebook and Twitter have.

That is true, hopefully the network will be resilient enough by that point, because I'm wary of that too. I guess time will tell how that goes.

On a more optimistic note, there seems to be more and more efforts of trying to fund other non-Bluesky projects, including for core infrastructure. Example, not an endorsement: https://bsky.app/profile/freeourfeeds.com




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