On Discourse and Decentralisation
The Community Group for #ActivityPub is drafting an open letter calling for respect and collaboration between the people working on the different protocols in the open social web.
I’m signing the letter, and with it, I have some thoughts regarding discourse, decentralisation and why I think this space matters.
All this rests on the implied assertion that ATProto is part of the open social web.
I don’t know the answer to that and I don’t really care to find out.
I’d say it is, since atproto is, at the very least, open.
Comment explaining how to create an account without any of the Bluesky infra:
Example of independent ATProto platform: https://blackskyweb.xyz/
Is it “open” sure, but not in any meaningful way as long as 99.99% of users are hosted by the same server.
open social web is used here as a descriptive term, to mean the collection of networks that includes activitypub, atproto, nostr (and potentially more like matrix and farcaster, depending on your inclination).
whether open social web is the correct term or not does not really matter, because if it was not than i would simply have to replace it with another term that describes the exact same thing