Date: 6th September 2025
A community letter on the recent heated discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol, co-signed by the people working on or with the respective protocols.
This statement was originally published on the swicg/general repository after I had been granted approval to merge. Since then one community
* If you wanted to summarise this letter on a t-shirt, it would be “People > Protocols > Platforms”. *
Can I get this under Calvin pissing on a Disney logo?
Seriously, this is now my favorite summary of the fediverse.
It comes from this 2019 post by Mike Masnick.
Unfortunately the atprotocol is more like Profits > People > Platforms
bsky is literally a non-profit, and all their shit is oss
Bluesky is a for-profit public benefit corporation, but their stuff is open source. and ATproto is great.
Oops, got the two mixed up, sorry