Federated Social Media

Mike Masnik of Techdirt points me at Sarah Perez’s article on a social media world without Caesars. , reporting on the founding AT Protocol conference, which is definitely not a Bluesky conference.

I wonder if the persistent pushing of Bluesky over Mastodon has anything to do with the fact that AT Protocol is US owned while Mastodon is a W3C standard, forkable but curated in Europe. (Is this still true?)

Links

1. A-world-without-caesars-how-the-atproto-community-is-rebuilding-the-web-to-return-power-to-the-people by Sarah Perez
2. What is ActivityPub and how does it work? at abstract 27
3. WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires an ActivityPub plug-in so blogs can join the Fediverse
4. The Activity Pub W3C standard at w3.org
5. Mastodon’s source code
6. https://fediversereport.com/a-conceptual-model-of-atproto-and-activitypub/