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@dansup capital corrupts. Nearly every damn time.
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@skarnio @mastodonmigration @baralheia yeah, and it's a very niche form of political tribalism around protocols, which in the grand scheme of things, don't really matter to every day people.
Protocols are just a means to an end user product that's simple and joyful to use.
There's interesting design choices on both sides, but at the end of the day, it's better to have two open protocols collaborating and being up against walled garden tech giants together.
Like, the repayable repository structure in AT Protocol, or the OAuth profile that they use would be s huge win to the ActivityPub ecosystem to adopt. The "apps are separate from identity and data" is also a vision in the original spirit of ActivityPub (client to server)
I'm just so sick of folks trying to divide what are otherwise two similar projects, where each project could learn a lot from esch other.
@thisismissem @skarnio @baralheia
Again, apologies for not following all of this discussion at a detailed technical level, but reject the accusation of protocol tribalism as it implies irrational advocacy of one system over the other.
The goal here is to understand the way two different networks scale, and whether from an practical standpoint each enables power sharing sufficient to actually be resilient to a principle bad actor.
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@vetehinen @thisismissem @mastodonmigration @baralheia There is a very big difference between the W3C and its relationship with the AP community and the Bluesky Social PBC.
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@thisismissem @skarnio @baralheia
Again, apologies for not following all of this discussion at a detailed technical level, but reject the accusation of protocol tribalism as it implies irrational advocacy of one system over the other.
The goal here is to understand the way two different networks scale, and whether from an practical standpoint each enables power sharing sufficient to actually be resilient to a principle bad actor.
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@thisismissem @skarnio @baralheia
The assertion has been made that AT Protocol exhibits quadratic scaling amoung independent nodes. If this is the case, it is very hard to see how it can scale 'wide.' And, we seem to be seeing evidence of this as people like Blacksky attempt to do so.
The reason for concern about this is the political environment we live in where bad actors can, and do, acquire control of social media networks and assert political influence thereby.
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Honestly, it has nothing to do with fighting each other. The concern is the continued dependence of AT Proto on Bluesky PBC, and what happens if the management of the company asserts an agenda. But, that is a discussion for another forum.
@mastodonmigration @thisismissem @baralheia Well, and more likely, what happens if the PBC can't find a business model and shuts down?
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@vetehinen @thisismissem @mastodonmigration @baralheia There is a very big difference between the W3C and its relationship with the AP community and the Bluesky Social PBC.
@skarnio @vetehinen @mastodonmigration @baralheia but as we've previously discussed, AT Protocol isn't going to live with Bluesky PBC, it's being standardised at the IETF, where a working group is in the final stages of being setup.
Also, historically, ActivityPub was based on a technology Evan's startup created, and it only later became ActivityPub through standardisation efforts.
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@skarnio @mastodonmigration @baralheia yeah, and it's a very niche form of political tribalism around protocols, which in the grand scheme of things, don't really matter to every day people.
Protocols are just a means to an end user product that's simple and joyful to use.
There's interesting design choices on both sides, but at the end of the day, it's better to have two open protocols collaborating and being up against walled garden tech giants together.
Like, the repayable repository structure in AT Protocol, or the OAuth profile that they use would be s huge win to the ActivityPub ecosystem to adopt. The "apps are separate from identity and data" is also a vision in the original spirit of ActivityPub (client to server)
I'm just so sick of folks trying to divide what are otherwise two similar projects, where each project could learn a lot from esch other.
@thisismissem @mastodonmigration @baralheia Reducing this important debate to "political tribalism" is as dangerous as considering that because it "doesn't matter to ordinary people," it shouldn't be addressed. If that were the case, neither Fediverse nor the AT protocol would exist, since decentralization isn't even an issue for "ordinary people." I don't think about the ingredients in my food every day, but I trust organizations that fight against the rampant use of pesticides and promote healthier alternatives. That's where we meet. I completely agree that fundamentalisms are harmful to any process, but we cannot ignore fundamental issues such as the centralization of power in the hands of a corporation over an alternative that presents itself as free. We are talking about a new model of online social communication for the world, so all aspects are important, and from my point of view, since I'm not a developer, the political aspect is the most important. If the Activytpub governance model needs improvement, let's criticize and fight for it publicly as well.
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@thisismissem @skarnio @baralheia
The assertion has been made that AT Protocol exhibits quadratic scaling amoung independent nodes. If this is the case, it is very hard to see how it can scale 'wide.' And, we seem to be seeing evidence of this as people like Blacksky attempt to do so.
The reason for concern about this is the political environment we live in where bad actors can, and do, acquire control of social media networks and assert political influence thereby.
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@mastodonmigration @skarnio @baralheia AT Protocol doesn't exhibit quadratic scaling in practice.
You can configure any network in its least optimal form and therefore create inefficiencies.
It's just like AT Protocol's properties applied to ActivityPub create some really weird outcomes. Trying to deploy AT Protocol as you would ActivityPub is ignoring the fact that these protocols have different network topologies.
We can find ways that AP, too, performs horribly.
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@skarnio @vetehinen @mastodonmigration @baralheia but as we've previously discussed, AT Protocol isn't going to live with Bluesky PBC, it's being standardised at the IETF, where a working group is in the final stages of being setup.
Also, historically, ActivityPub was based on a technology Evan's startup created, and it only later became ActivityPub through standardisation efforts.
@skarnio @vetehinen @mastodonmigration @baralheia
With all due respect to everyone in this thread, we're just wasting time with these conversations that would be better spent on pushing the fediverse forward and making it more welcoming to everyone.
Yes, I am just as frustrated that a VC-funded fediverse competitor has gained so much more traction, but we're not going to catch up unless we acknowledge and fix the problems keeping, and pushing, people out.
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@mastodonmigration @thisismissem @baralheia Well, and more likely, what happens if the PBC can't find a business model and shuts down?
@timbray @mastodonmigration @baralheia by the time PBC shutsdown, we should be well along the way to standardisation at IETF, and more players in the ecosystem means less importance of one entity.
What would happen if Mastodon gGmbH/Inc disappeared tomorrow? It'd significantly hurt the fediverse too, because of how much of the fediverse is concentrated there.
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@skarnio @vetehinen @mastodonmigration @baralheia but as we've previously discussed, AT Protocol isn't going to live with Bluesky PBC, it's being standardised at the IETF, where a working group is in the final stages of being setup.
Also, historically, ActivityPub was based on a technology Evan's startup created, and it only later became ActivityPub through standardisation efforts.
@thisismissem @vetehinen @mastodonmigration @baralheia That's right. For my part, I will eagerly await the complete independence of AT from Bluesky PBC to propose its inclusion in the content of @rede regarding Open Social Web.
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@mastodonmigration @skarnio @baralheia AT Protocol doesn't exhibit quadratic scaling in practice.
You can configure any network in its least optimal form and therefore create inefficiencies.
It's just like AT Protocol's properties applied to ActivityPub create some really weird outcomes. Trying to deploy AT Protocol as you would ActivityPub is ignoring the fact that these protocols have different network topologies.
We can find ways that AP, too, performs horribly.
@thisismissem @skarnio @baralheia
"AT Protocol doesn't exhibit quadratic scaling in practice."
Respectfully, it certainly seems to. Understanding that there are advantages, but even your example of Blacksky having to build a massive resource scaled to all users on the network in order to be independent of Bluesky PBC demonstrates that any such enterprise will have the same requirement.
Replicated across all such efforts, this seems like the definition of quadratic scaling.
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@thisismissem @mastodonmigration @baralheia Great. Our main problem isn't technology, but politics... the more independent we can be from corporations, the better. I'll look into this information. Thank you!
Here are links to help read more about what Emelia said.
Independent PLC Directory:
https://atproto.com/blog/plc-directory-orgAT on IETF:
https://atproto.com/blog/taking-at-to-the-ietf
Creating the Working Group:
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@thisismissem @mastodonmigration @baralheia My analysis assumes a network architecture in which each node is a major participant in the functionality of the network, because as I argue in the piece, from a power distribution perspective of decentralization, it is important. What I describe in the piece is that if you want more than a pantheon of gods-eye view participants, then not having addressed delivery means that the system can't scale down.
And this is true: you can run a gotosocial node that isn't *dependent* on other major players in the network, and it scales down great.
The question is whether or not that matters and is important to people. Maybe it doesn't, I don't know. It matters to me, though.
@cwebber @thisismissem @baralheia
"...not having addressed delivery means that the system can't scale down"
Getting back to the subject of 'quadratic scaling', unless completely missing the point, which is very possible, this seems to be the crux of the matter. There needs to be a mechanism for independent elements to 'see' everything. If that mechanism scales relative to the total network, you have quadratic scaling. If it scales relative to the element size you have linear scaling.
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@cwebber @thisismissem @baralheia
"...not having addressed delivery means that the system can't scale down"
Getting back to the subject of 'quadratic scaling', unless completely missing the point, which is very possible, this seems to be the crux of the matter. There needs to be a mechanism for independent elements to 'see' everything. If that mechanism scales relative to the total network, you have quadratic scaling. If it scales relative to the element size you have linear scaling.
@mastodonmigration @cwebber @baralheia I could build an application that tracks just its users, doesn't use a relay, doesn't have a full-network view, and talks directly to PDSes. That's possible in AT Protocol's architecture. It's just not the main way people do things because it comes with trade-offs, just as message passing comes with its own trade-offs.
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If ATProto can overcome its origins and single point of failure, great.
But it's gross to gaslight ActivityPub developers that those origins don't exist and it never happened, and don't talk about them when strangers are watching.
Well, here's another shoutout to WAFRN for allowing me to have an account rooted in the Fediverse, that allows me to interact without a bridge to everyone on Bluesky, thus somewhat getting over that potential SPF (in that if Bluesky's relays completely go down, my account and its Fediverse connections still remain)
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@mastodonmigration @cwebber @baralheia I could build an application that tracks just its users, doesn't use a relay, doesn't have a full-network view, and talks directly to PDSes. That's possible in AT Protocol's architecture. It's just not the main way people do things because it comes with trade-offs, just as message passing comes with its own trade-offs.
@thisismissem @cwebber @baralheia
Sure, but that's not a decentralized global social network. Again, recognizing that there are many things that AT Proto excels at, and that message passing has its own problems, the subject at hand is how independent nodes scale.
The reason for this focus is that networks that scale linearly as they go wide are inherently easier to scale wide, and therefore better are distributing power across the network.
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@dansup Nostr is a good idea, unfortunately nobody is talking to each other and everyone wants funding from the same wallet.
Nostr is a great idea, until one goes on it and realizes there is close to zero moderation on it, and that among its posters are many neo-nazis and scammers.
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@thisismissem @cwebber @baralheia
Sure, but that's not a decentralized global social network. Again, recognizing that there are many things that AT Proto excels at, and that message passing has its own problems, the subject at hand is how independent nodes scale.
The reason for this focus is that networks that scale linearly as they go wide are inherently easier to scale wide, and therefore better are distributing power across the network.
@mastodonmigration @cwebber @baralheia why isn't it? You could each run your own PDS and host your own copy of the app. We could still see everything between us.
tbh, I'm kinda sick of being lectured by a guy who works at Meta on decentralization. Come collect your paycheck from the fediverse, make that work, then you can lecture me about decentralization.
Edit: Also, no mastodon node has a full view of the network. The argument you're making is fundamentally flawed my dude.
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@mastodonmigration @cwebber @baralheia why isn't it? You could each run your own PDS and host your own copy of the app. We could still see everything between us.
tbh, I'm kinda sick of being lectured by a guy who works at Meta on decentralization. Come collect your paycheck from the fediverse, make that work, then you can lecture me about decentralization.
Edit: Also, no mastodon node has a full view of the network. The argument you're making is fundamentally flawed my dude.
@thisismissem @mastodonmigration @baralheia Hey, let's be nice.
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@aeva She's chronically online enough as it is chatting to anyone under the sun. 😅
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There's more, especially on the state level. Eg the Idaho house just passed a bathroom ban that bans trans use of bathrooms *in private businesses*, with mandatory enforcement by businesses, punishable by a $10k fine if a customer identifies a trans person in the bathroom. https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-government/2026-02-17/idaho-house-passes-transgender-bathroom-ban
Kansas rolled out a bathroom bill that provides *bounty hunting*, where people are paid for turning in trans people who use the "wrong" (ie, right) bathroom https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/19/anti-trans-bathroom-bill-kansas/
I'm just saying. It's getting bad. It's worth knowing how bad.
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@ephesossh She was into farming simulators a few years back. However, she's chronically online enough as it is. Less screentime would be better.
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@eyeling @bouncinglime 😂 As an introvert who enjoys being alone, this is the best idea I can give you. I can't think of anything else.
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Maybe it would be needed some additions."Excluding languages stating memory-safety. They shall not allow writing mutually memory unsafe operations like volatiles, memory mapped I/Os. Let those to be written in other languages and sanely link with it with warnings."
