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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 16:28:44 JST Evan Prodromou

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   • Scott Jenson
   • Boris Mann
   • Dmian 🇪🇺

   @boris @dmian @scottjenson this is something that was designed into ActivityPub and has largely been ignored. We're doing a lot of work on it at the W3C SocialCG group.

   https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-api/README

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     Boris Mann (boris@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 16:28:45 JST Boris Mann

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     • Scott Jenson
     • Dmian 🇪🇺

     @dmian @scottjenson there’s a just kicking off UX research project (that Scott just became aware of) that is doing work on the best messaging for this.

     Bluesky is one product but also a microblog data type (like ActivityPub Notes type that Mastodon and others implement).

     You can choose your account host completely separate even from your app with ATProto, so it’s different.

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     Dmian 🇪🇺 (dmian@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 16:28:46 JST Dmian 🇪🇺

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     • Scott Jenson
     • Boris Mann

     @boris @scottjenson There’s been a great effort of talking about the Fediverse, and not just Mastodon.
     https://jointhefediverse.net/ (among others)
     But if we’re talking about Mastodon, there’s been an effort to offer different instances:
     https://joinmastodon.org/ (directly from Mastodon)
     You search “Join Fediverse” or “Join Mastodon”, and you get offered a choice.
     What do you get when you search “Join Bluesky”? Or “Join ATmosphere”? (Didn’t know that was even a thing)

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     Boris Mann (boris@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 16:28:47 JST Boris Mann

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     • Scott Jenson

     @scottjenson once again going to ask that you say #ATProto and not Bluesky.

     We’re trying. Like many distributed open source systems, this is bottoms up community work. Pointing at Bluesky-the-company erases our work.

     It’s not Bluesky’s job, it’s the ecosystems job.

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     Scott Jenson (scottjenson@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 16:28:48 JST Scott Jenson

     RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/115937101960287352

     Exactly. Pointing out that #Bluesky isn't *practically* decentralized yet is not a critique, it's a statement of the work they need to do. (and I wish them luck!)

     Mastodon has its own demons to slay. No one is perfect here! We're just talking about how things should improve. I so don't want us to form a circular firing squad. We can all win.