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1. Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 16:46:34 JST Jon Worth

   I'd really welcome *technical* and NOT *political/ethical* answers to this question

   I am still trying to get my head around Bluesky

   Is the AT Protocol - in what it can do already, or in the short term will be able to do - better than ActivityPub that is behind Mastodon?

   I can find nothing decent that explains this in layperson's terms…

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 16:46:30 JST Aral Balkan

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     @jon Isn’t the whole point that the technical details of protocols are political?

     I don’t see how it’s possible to separate the two.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 16:50:51 JST Aral Balkan

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     @jon (The technical details of Mastodon/ActivityPub would be very different if designed by a billionaire-led initiative instead of as a reaction to billion-led initiatives.)

     Case in point: Every technical decision I take while designing the Small Web and its protocol is a political one.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 16:53:08 JST Aral Balkan

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     @jon Oh I’m not having a go at you, I really mean I don’t know how to explain the technical differences without the political differences because the former are a reflection of the latter :)

     (If you take the latter out of the explanation, you’re left with an incomplete picture.)

   • Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 16:53:09 JST Jon Worth

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral Aral, really, come on. I have posted loads over months and years about the ethics of social networks. So you ought to know I know those questions.

     But there is a gap in my knowledge in terms of practically how the AT Protocol could work in future, and whether it would offer some technical advantages ActivityPub does not.

     I think it's fair to ask that.