ATproto: The Enshittification Killswitch That Enables Resonant Computing
#ProtocolsNotPlatforms
Open social media has a new fan: U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna. The congressman for California's 17th Congressional District appeared on Kara Swisher's "On" podcast last week and talked about Bluesky, @surf, and the importance of being able to construct your own social graph, take your followers where you go, and opt out of algorithms. Here's the full episode:
#SocialMedia #OpenSocial #SurfSocial #Bluesky #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #ATProto #ActivityPub
@Catwoman69y2k I've concluded that much of the "join xyz platform for updates" mentality comes from the one-two punch of both web browsers ditching RSS and Atom and Google ditching Google Reader.
Say a free software project maintainer writes a development blog. The audience may or may not already have an RSS reader installed. This means the project maintainer might feel responsible for recommending a reader application for all 7 major platforms (Windows, macOS, desktop Linux, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, Firefox extension). Otherwise, people will land on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators and experience analysis paralysis.
I guess one disadvantage of protocols is that platforms have tended to do better at landing pages than protocols. Is there a page to which a blogger can refer visitors who have never used RSS before?
#RSS #DevBlog #RSSReader #AnalysisParalysis #GoogleReader #Atom #FOSS #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #LandingPage
@Coreyartus Followed!
Oh, wow! The German IT Planning Council decided yesterday to consolidate a bunch of disparate communication tools into a unified system based on Matrix and MLS.
Here's the record of their decision and the other options they considered: https://gitlab.opencode.de/it-planungsrat/fit-ab/zapuk/-/blob/main/Zielarchitektur/Architekturentscheidungen/ADR-0011-Kommunikationsschicht.md
Take back control by building on #ATProtocol and promoting #ProtocolsNotPlatforms! RANT OVER!!
@travisfw
> "using the internet" should always mean engaging directly with other individual humans, with nothing but routers in-between.
We need to un-shackle the internet from its current #monopoly #SurveillanceCapitalism #feudal lords, and return the net to the proper #WorldOfEnds.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050828023214/https://worldofends.com/
Thank you again to #Special #Guest @ChrisWere ! #Episode 13 is now available as a #VOD and #Fedicast.
#Peertube - https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/poYgA3RUpyXSAMqViDUgeX
#Castopod - https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/chris-were-peertuber-freebooters-and-space-virgins
As always please let me know if there's anything I've missed, typo'd, constructive criticism, suggestions, etc!
#fedi #fediverse #people #peopleoverplatforms #protocolsnotplatforms #tech #wales #expanse
TRY #2 - Thank you again to @stefano for @admin and for joining me today on Fireside Fedi Episode 12!
You can find the links to the VOD and Fedicast below:
https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/vSo87e6Vtd2yQJ6pZj8raj
https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/stefano-marinelli-fedimeteo-and-bsdcafe
#meteo #meteorology #meteorologists #fedimeteointerviews #fedi #fediverse #interview #peoples #fediverse #fedi #peopleoverplatforms #protocolsnotplatforms
@molly0xfff's opening talk at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025:
“We need a web that serves people not profit, a web built on protocols."
https://flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGrfQo9Cqvb8r
#BündnisOST #OpenSocialWeb #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #MollyWhite #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #FediverseHouse #SXSW
Love this clip from @molly0xfff's Fediverse House talk:
"Imagine for a moment a web where communities can create their own spaces while still simultaneously and seamlessly interoperating with others. Think of it like a network of independent neighborhoods, each with its own character and rules, but with shared community spaces, art galleries and libraries.
"In this web, you control what you create and decide how it's shared.The algorithms that shape that experience, they're transparent and customizable. You can peek under the hood or tweak them to your liking or replace them entirely if they're not serving your needs. If you're sharing a space with a group of others and you disagree with how they run that space, you can leave, but you can take your work and your community with you.
"This isn't just a dream. This is already happening. Take Mastodon and the broader Fediverse, where millions of people are building communities that talk to each other across servers and platforms."
https://flipboard.video/w/s6FVEb2wei2ctFrdeZjuZa
#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #MollyWhite #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW #Mastodon
Fighting words from @molly0xfff's opening talk at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025:
“We're facing an existential threat. We need a web that serves people not profit, a web built on protocols, not platforms…It's being built right now by people like you in communities like this one.”
Thank you, developers and denizens of the open social web.🙏🏼
https://flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGrfQo9Cqvb8r
#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #MollyWhite #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW
We need #ProtocolsNotPlatforms for reliable, safe, future-proof communication @evan
For anyone the doesn't see the power of #activitypub and the #fediverse , I absolutely love this quote from the #fosdem talk with #ghost co-founder #JohnONolan
"You have to remember that open protocols don't go away because they're not dependent on one company, Ghost could disappear tomorrow, activitypub would not .... if and when any of the closed source companies go under, so does their protocol"
#fosdem2025 #foss #protocolsnotplatforms
https://youtu.be/IbEJppXDwvI?feature=shared&t=1408
*Now lose the YT link;)
It's no slight on the #Python maintainers that the #OpenPGP system is inadequate. They have correctly sounded the alarm, they're right that the system has lots of problems and should be replaced.
What I do fault the Python maintainers for, is dismissing valid concerns about GitHub and Google, by recommending them as replacement. If we don't have an open replacement, that's bad, but that doesn't justify vesting trust in proven untrustworthy entities.
@freakboy3742
> It's getting increasingly difficult to argue that Bluesky *isn't* where the vast majority of public discourse is heading
Even if that were true, it doesn't imply people should build anything there.
Building community in a centralised (no real plan for a distributed ATProto), cryptocurrency-grift, venture-capital-owned, corporate platform
is the same mistake people made that led to the Twitter collapse. Never again.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/
The tiktok ban should make people realize that protocol's and decentralization is more important then platforms, instead of putting yourself into a walled Garden and being at the mercy of these Social media giants you should put your roots in other places like nostr mastodon ect.
IMs come and go. #email is here to stay.
@anneroth iconic der satz auf der webpage "people over protocolls". Da haben wir jahrelang mit dem slogan "protokolle statt messenger und plattformen" gearbeitet und dann kommen die jetzt so :D
#protocolsnotplatforms #openvibe
I dream of a unified messaging protocol where I can keep on top of all the messaging in my life from a single place. #Messaging #ProtocolsNotPlatforms
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