Notices by Robin Berjon (robin@mastodon.social), page 2

@bengo @volkris It's AP over HTTP but with:
• Credible exit: you're not under some admin's thumb.
• A better handle/identity system.
• Shared infrastructure with any number of other open protocols.

@volkris @bengo Indeed, it's a simple layering situation. If you have an ATP implementation, you can go ahead and implement AP on top of it (i.e. using that implementation's primitives). That's what ATP is designed for, in fact.

The reverse — AP over ATP — I'm not even sure what it would mean?

@bengo @volkris How do you get credible exit for AP?

I'm not saying that PLC is ideal (it's temporary) but being opinionated is important. Open-ended everything just leads to the same kind of adoption profile that semweb stuff has (and XML had): a super-committed core and no one else understands what it's for. It might be good to learn from experience there.

@ntnsndr You mean like https://berjon.com/ap-at/ ? I don't think that we need to bridge so much as integrate.

@tchambers @snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge Bluesky/ATProto is well above 1M users now. Great table!

This joke is from 1974 (in *Computer Lib*). It only took 50 years to build.