My experience has been weirdly the opposite. Statistical variance maybe🤷‍♀️

Trust is not limited to familiar contacts. Depending on the setting, it can be purely cultural/societal. The social contract is as good as it gets in how it's codified

Indeed would be nice!

I'm not sure I get you. AP is used for PeerTube and Lemmy, both of which are not the typical microblogging services and that are in good use.

Understandable. Thanks for taking the feedback and for writing such an approachable artice! cheers :D

activitypub precedes Mastodon and not controlled by it. 30% of Fediverse users are on platforms other than Mastodon.

The fact that you say Bsky and not atproto is telling the atproto is not, as a standard, utilized in any meaningful manner. What's even the point of saying Bsky has atproto as an interface if there's no one interfacing with it? Also I think 15 million users are worth a metion of an article this big.

You mean Mastodon, yes. But in regards to utilization of a standard by many entities in an ecosystem, activitypub is definitely more in use, even in absolute numbers.

I don't see the need to write something positive about Activity Pub. You can even try to describe atproto as an evolution. But it's hard to take your post about open standards in good faith if you refuse to mention any of the other options. This is not at all in the spirit of the Openness.

It's kind of sad that you wrote this big article about what you deem as the Open Social movement and then proceed to talk about a singular protocol. You didn't even mention the more popularly used one with a healthier and more decentralised ecosystem.

Well we're already in that state to an extent. Major publishers will still have a role to play though, of course.

I knew that place is a fucking blight on humanity but still what the hell??