anonymous asked

What has been the worst part of working with ActivityPub (and its ecosystem), and the worst part of working with ATProto? Do you believe multi-protocol to be the way to go for decentralized social media? - Nelson, TSN.

More than the details of one vs the other: the difference of architecture between both of them!

Knowing how fedi works wont help you understand how bluesky works. In fact, it will make your understanding of it harder!

Fedi decentralization is "simple". If Mark Zuckerberg had made facebook self hosteable and federated, he would had ended up with an architecture very similar to activitypub: I write post, I send the post to my followers. Simple to understand.

Bluesky is decentralized, but asks the quesiton "do you actualy have to take care of everything?".

I first conected wafrn to activitypub because it was my project and I saw that my 200 or 300 users were gona get bored and leave. So i decided to torture the internet.

Then bluesky hapened and some people said "its not decentralized". "then explain the bridge" "they cheat". Ok.
I got annoyed so I conected wafrn to bluesky anyway