Comment by knowtheory
1 day ago
I dunno man. Why was Tangled able to ship on top of ATProto even prior to getting funded, and ForgeFed has been hanging out for years?
1 day ago
I dunno man. Why was Tangled able to ship on top of ATProto even prior to getting funded, and ForgeFed has been hanging out for years?
That's become my answer to all "why not ActivityPub?" questions.
AP isn't completely stagnant but there's a reason AT is still holding on to and accelerating that early developer excitement AP had. Maybe it's marketing, maybe it's money, maybe it's some technical thing. Maybe it's the community. Whatever it is, people seem to enjoy developing in the Atmosphere in a way I never saw on AP.
If you consider people's worries of centralization happening with AT, that's not necessarily a good sign.
Of course VC funding and startup mindsets prefer a protocol that is easier to rugpull.