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   Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 11:48:39 JST Mastodon Migration

   • Mike Masnick ✅
   • Anuj Ahooja

   Really interesting things afoot in social media. It seems like "W", a newly announced "European alternative to X" is actually a fork of the Bluesky code, and is, at least for now, kind of part of the Bluesky AT Proto network. (Thanks to @quillmatiq for the explainer.)

   And, apparently #Bluesky board member @mmasnick really doesn't like the idea.

   It will be fascinating to see how this develops.

   https://atprotocol.dev/w-for-atproto/

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     Anuj Ahooja (quillmatiq@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 18:57:20 JST Anuj Ahooja

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     • Mike Masnick ✅
     • Mike Fraser

     @mike This is untrue. There are a number of independent apps across various verticals. Blogging: leaflet, pckt, offprint; Streaming: stream.place; Short-form video: spark; Git: tangled; and so many more, and none of them are directly dependent on Bluesky whatsoever.

     This doesn't even count the microblogging competitors coming up that are full-stack independent of Bsky as well (Blacksky, Northsky, Gander, Eurosky etc.)

     @mastodonmigration @mmasnick

     Darnell Clayton :verified: repeated this.
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     Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 18:57:20 JST Mastodon Migration

     in reply to

     • Mike Masnick ✅
     • Mike Fraser
     • Rob Ricci
     • Anuj Ahooja

     @quillmatiq @mike @mmasnick

     Feel like whenever this discussion is joined people start talking past each other.

     It may be the case that the ATmosphere can be decentralized. And there may be small scale projects which test this potentiality. But the fact remains that it remains highly centralized.

     Rob Ricci @ricci has developed a metric to address this matter

     https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/

     The purpose is not to dump on #Bluesky, but rather to establish meaningful context for these discussions.

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     Mike Fraser (mike@thecanadian.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 18:57:21 JST Mike Fraser

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     • Mike Masnick ✅
     • Anuj Ahooja

     @mastodonmigration @quillmatiq @mmasnick Mike always talks about decentralized social media but BlueSky and AT protocol haven't really moved the needle. Meanwhile in the fediverse there's Mastodon, Loops, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Miskey, etc, etc, etc...