An open letter trying to calm troubled protocol waters: "the Social Web Community Group has seen an increase in heated discussions online ... a hotbed for conflict, disagreements, and misinformation. There has often been significant biases exhibited within these conversations."Points out that the 2 protocols have more in common than what divides t…

Mathematical comparison of ATProto and ActivityPub

CLW with a response to Bryan Newbold's response to her post, so: "my final thoughts (for my blog at least) on Bluesky and decentralization".tl:dr; "my assertion was that Bluesky was neither decentralized nor federated. In my opinion many of the points raised in Bryan's article solidify those arguments... [but] "credible exit" remains a "valuable v…

"a reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber's thoughtful ... "How decentralized is Bluesky really?", Hubbed earlier, which "raises the bar on analysis in this space. However, I disagree with some of the analysis".First, agreement with CLW's "shared heap" image, and a good summary of how Bluesky works: "atproto is a global self-authenticating network: a si…

ActivityPub co-author Christine Lemmer-Webber "often get asked whether or not I have opinions about ATProto vs ActivityPub... I do ... but I am usually head-down focused on building... [and] anything I had to say on the subject would not be received productively". But, encouraged by a core Bluesky developer, here is her longread.It's too long to s…