The Community Group for #ActivityPub is drafting an open letter calling for respect and collaboration between the people working on the different protocols in the open social web.

I'm signing the letter, and with it, I have some thoughts regarding discourse, decentralisation and why I think this space matters.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

All this rests on the implied assertion that ATProto is part of the open social web.

I don't know the answer to that and I don't really care to find out.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

I'd say it is, since atproto is, at the very least, open.

[–] wisdomchicken@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

open social web is used here as a descriptive term, to mean the collection of networks that includes activitypub, atproto, nostr (and potentially more like matrix and farcaster, depending on your inclination).

whether open social web is the correct term or not does not really matter, because if it was not than i would simply have to replace it with another term that describes the exact same thing

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Comment explaining how to create an account without any of the Bluesky infra:

https://feddit.org/post/18642154/8860187

Example of independent ATProto platform: https://blackskyweb.xyz/

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

Is it "open" sure, but not in any meaningful way as long as 99.99% of users are hosted by the same server.