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   Will Oremus (willoremus@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 00:35:57 JST Will Oremus

   I wrote about the push to "billionaire-proof" social media, including plans for a new nonprofit to oversee Mastodon and a separate plan to launch a nonprofit to build out an ecosystem of apps running on Bluesky's protocol. Gift link to today's Tech Brief: https://wapo.st/40fTk4X

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     william.maggos (wjmaggos@liberal.city)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 00:36:26 JST william.maggos

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     @willoremus

     what I'd love to see covered is the different visions between #ActivityPub and #ATproto.

     so I understand the independence offered by the AP model. govts and media orgs can have their own social media servers like they have websites and email servers today. it's already happening. anybody on any other server can then get their posts without a middleman.

     but what is the equivalent of this for AT? afaict the model is that there will always be a middleman relay. no real independence.