Bluesky, which uses it, has been opened to federation now, and the standard basically just looks better than ActivityPub. Has anyone heard about a project to make a Lemmy-style “link aggregator” service on it?

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      And they are either in for one of the following:

      • a $30 Million lesson where they learn that they will have to reinvent ActivityPub in order to be “properly” decentralized
      • a rug pull where they come up with a second relay like Bluesky but fork to give exclusive access for large institutions and the enterprise.
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        It’s ridiculous they were asking for $30m to do something that ActivityPub already does. Wasted money that could have gone anywhere else

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        There are important features that ATPro has that activity pub doesn’t. I’d prefer activity pub be the winner but they really need to improve some things. Namely, identity. Bluesky identity is more portable.

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          Identity was already solved with Zot aka Nomad, which is part of the Fediverse and easier to implement than ATProto.

          It’s mostly been ignored because it’s just not that important to people, apparently.

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          We still don’t need ATProto for that. ActivityPods solves that.

          ActivityPub itself is built around the principle that the server owns your identity: the best you can do is abandon an identity (i.e, your actor URL) and tell everyone else (via the Move Activity) that you are adopting a new identity.