Dave Winer's linkblog in Mastothere wasn't much of a context.
i was somehow cc'd because (i think) evan was saying something about RSS, speculating how it could do what ActivityPub was doing and what it's strengths and weaknesses would be.
I wanted to say that wasn't necessary, each protocol has its advantages.
the advantage of RSS is that it's well-understood, there are lots of apps that support it, and it can be implemented in days or weeks.
in fact mastodon has already implemented it.
i'm going to publish a list of all the people i follow in bluesky via their RSS feeds, as a reading list that people can subscribe to in FeedLand, or any other reader that can subscribe to OPML lists (the standard for exchanging addresses in the RSS world).
how did i do this? because we have built RSS support for Bluesky.
we can have a bunch of the benefits of federation right now, and without any need for facebook's support.
we should work with each other, in other words, is what i was saying to evan and others.
i've seen this happen over and over, everyone wants to work with the big company, when history has shown they would have done better to work with each other.
you may hope the big company has good intentions, but they're a big company and they honestly don't have very much respect for us. i've had my nose rubbed in this for my whole career. it was amazing how much better they listened when i had a Harvard business card. ;-)
that's the context.
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