Gregory's Server@cwebber @bnewbold On a more structural level, bsky's ATProto sounds more like a competition killer, in that adoption of it as the requirements for entry exponentially expand pretty much require corporate / competitive ambitions... which tends to get ugly, fast.
This brings up some ugly aspects of LJ server's history. The software was initially fully open source. Technically, it was always possible to tie LJ server sites together in a meaningful way.
But... /1
@cwebber @bnewbold ...the founder repeatedly made decisions undermining them, rejecting relevant code contributions, etc.
One of the things I argued for is that LJ server should focus on being easier and more distributed, to the point that a lot of the early blogging systems which didn't have robust commenting features at that time could use it to host commenting.
I viewed a very large opportunity there for open source adoption, and a reliable % of people contributing, if asked.
No dice. /end