Re AT Protocol "versus" ActivityPub "There does not have to be a “winning” protocol.

[dangillmor@mastodon.social]

Re AT Protocol "versus" ActivityPub "There does not have to be a “winning” protocol. We do not build a better open social web for everyone by fighting and arguing about protocol superiority."

Strongly endorse; collaboration on ths will work way better than competition.

Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol

Foreword This statement was originally published on the swicg/general repository after I had been granted approval to merge. Since then one community member has raised that it did not follow the Community Group's processes, and consequently the document has been taken down from the original location. When publishing, I

Writings of Emelia (writings.thisismissem.social)

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@dangillmor
No.

So much no.

These people are asking us to judge the AT protocol on its own merits, entirely divorced from Blue Sky, the company founded and funded by fascists. These are the "keep politics out of tech" people who wan to believe that any tech can be apolitical.

Blue Sky must be destroyed.

As for the purportedly-apolitical and untainted AT protocol, I must again refer to the sage Jules Winnfield: "Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'll never know."