Comment on Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture

• Sl00k@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The literal first line of Wikipedia agrees with me?

  The Fediverse (commonly shortened to fedi)[4][5][6] is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as federation) using a common protocol.

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  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Read on to literally the next paragraph, which says Diaspora is the only still developed platform that matches the original definition and does not use ActivityPub, or to the section that explicitly calls ATProto a Fediverse alternative.

    The first paragraph is descriptive of the Fediverse, not a test for whether something is part of it. The Internet is a collection of computers communicating via TCP/IP. That doesn’t mean any two computers communicating over TCP/IP are now part of the Internet.

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    • Sl00k@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We’re just arguing semantics just to argue at this point.

      I can say how the paragraph says the majority of Fediverse platforms operate on ActivityPub and how ATProto is not within that majority at the moment.

      Or I can say yes Diaspora is the only one that matches the original definition, but what is the definition now?

      But a much better conversation is why we’re trying to fracture our conversations around decentralized social media? The data is open and can be bridged. At that point are both protocols the Fediverse? Why are we digging ourselves into a whole here on the Activitypub side and refusing to discuss how we can further the Fediverse and decentralization?

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      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Because this is not c/maybefederatedsocialnetworks, it’s c/fediverse, which is a specific thing.

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