Mastodawn

With the news of the secret $100 million investment in Bluesky by Bain, I keep thinking about protocols.

Maybe the perceived "drawbacks" of #ActivityPub are ultimately strengths?

#ATproto handles identity in a way that allows a single sign-in across apps. But wouldn't this make it easier to profile you? Is this why crypto VCs are so attracted to it?

And ATproto has funding in the 100s of millions by VCs but at some point they'll want to turn a profit. There is ZERO pressure here to ensh*tt*fy

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707Kat

@_elena The perceived weaknesses about the inter-connectivity is definitely strengths.

Fx. it's much harder for bots to infect your timeline and get reach on here. So it's less attractive to set them up.

I have no doubt that VCs are interested in keeping Bsky up for easy training fooder through the pipeline.

I wrote something similar 2 months ago on Bsky. 😅