It amuses me how the likes of Post acknowledge that...

It amuses me how the likes of Post acknowledge that decentralization is the future of social media but they’re not going to adopt it yet because they don’t know which protocol will “win”.

It doesn’t matter which protocol wins. It makes no difference if it’s ActivityPub or AT Protocol (Bluesky) or IMAP/SMTP.

What matters is that a social media message gets treated as a message.

Hence, interoperability.

ActivityPub isn’t perfect but it offers interoperability right now.

Like 4 Apr 2023 at 13:52 | Open on mastodon.social

6 comments

Ted Garrison

@atomicpoet
It also tells you that they don't have enough confidence in their own product that they think they can help a protocol win by adopting it...

4 Apr 2023 at 13:57 | Open on mstdn.social

Chris Trottier

If a message gets treated as a message—specifically across disparate servers, clients, and apps—that means decentralization of social media is a success.

If Post isn’t letting a message be a message on their platform, promises of Mastodon compatibility should be taken with a grain of salt. Currently, they are at odds with decentralization.

I refuse to use their service.

4 Apr 2023 at 14:01 | Open on mastodon.social

Burnt Veggies

@atomicpoet I opened my Mastodon account at the end of October and opened a Post account shortly thereafter. I quit Twitter soon after that. I haven't looked at or posted anything on Post since at least December and tried to close my account, but apparently they aren't letting people close accounts, yet. I couldn't find any way to close my account. 😑

4 Apr 2023 at 15:39 | Open on mstdn.social

Kurt Fliegel

@atomicpoet The charlatans at Post don't care at all about protocols as long as their Trust Metric can filter and control audience behaviors to support their business model, which is to employ a micropayments scheme to break publishers' subscription dollars into pennies so Post can skim off the top. Their dream is a thousand Seth Abramsons under their banner. Unsustainanable and dishonest. Notably, a year into their bus dev push, only half a dozen publishers have signed on.

5 Apr 2023 at 18:24 | Open on mas.to

Adam Dalliance

@atomicpoet :lol: at the idea of a single winning protocol in federated social.

We can't even get one of POP or IMAP to die and it's been 50 years.

4 Apr 2023 at 14:04 | Open on boing.world

robin

@atomicpoet
Is there really any meaningful competition between ActivityPub and other decentralisation protocols? How can "waiting for a winner to emerge" possibly continue to be a tenable argument even under its own terms?

5 Apr 2023 at 5:27 | Open on union.place