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How dare you one more software to the pool of interacting softwares and protocols (social.trom.tf)

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How dare you one more software to the pool of interacting softwares and protocols

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Another protocol is infact not good. Standardization can often be a good thing actually. Imagine if every company sold things made with their own custom screw head.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

@Themadbeagle I get what you're saying, and don't get me wrong I've experienced firsthand the jank of multiple interacting protocols (and differing implementations of the same one), but I think the single standardized protocol ship sailed when ActivityPub came around during OStatus's reign. A lot of software decided to support both (and many still do), and while I wasn't a part of the ecosystem then, I'm guessing users of both protocols benefited a lot from being interconnected instead of siloed.

We've currently got three big protocols - AT at tens of millions, ActivityPub and Nostr at millions - in addition to a half dozen smaller protocols with thousands of users. My personal take is that a continued ability to interact with almost everybody on all of them is a net positive rather than try to silo everybody and force a winner.

Especially because, unless Meta gets their federation act together, AT (BlueSky) is shaping up to be the big protocol. They've made some big strides towards decentralization in the last year or so, but even in a perfect implementation it'd still be fairly centralized compared to the other big two.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

For biggest protocol it's also important to consider the number of instances. In that regard Activitypub is far ahead of everything else (Bluesky only consists of a single instance).

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