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Here, @jay.bsky.team says Bluesky is for fascists, too: > I'm wondering, would you welcome by President Trump if he was debating joining Bluesky? > Yeah, Bluesky's for everyone, you know. www.wired.com/video/watch/...

I wonder if anyone *genuinely* believed that this platform would be that much different from X. I never did. It's not as bad as X yet, but it's still a platform run by a few number of people who make decisions for everybody else on the platform. Power, politics, etc etc will always ruin it

Agreed. But I think the main difference is in the hope of the protocol eventually causing some collective ATproto instances to stand up. Ppl are already trying to do that, such as Northsky operating as a coop. Bsky is run by venture capital and has all the issues of that financial model.

Yes, but Mastodon has a terrible UX and is uninterested in doing anything different. That’s acceptable to a lot of people in tech, but not acceptable to a lot of groups who have made bsky their home. That said, there are also a lot of things about ATproto that suck.

I think the idea just has to keep reaching a wider audience, while protocols keep being iterated upon. I don’t think either ATproto or ActivityPub will end up being the proto that gets huge. And that’s fine. Both are formative.

There are so many easy to use Mastodon clients, it’s a moot point.