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BlueSky's AT protocol is proprietary. It can be yanked or changed without notice at any time.

AP is open source. Threads already uses it. We use it. But so do Lies Social and Gab. So far, more software uses AP than AT. That advantage is crucial to maintain for we in the Fediverse.

AT cannot be properly called part of the Fediverse for this reason: it is proprietary. It can't be allowed to become the lingua franca -- the SMTP -- of social media, or we'll all be locked into a new walled garden at an even deeper level. An architectural level. Like paying Oracle to write Java code level.

ActivityPub must survive, at all costs. Thing 30 years into the future, FFS, folks! Think long term.

This shit doesn't just matter.

It REALLY, REALLY, REALLY matters.

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