Here's an extra-long issue covering the CFTC lawsuit against Binance, SBF's new bribery charge, the Arbitrum fiasco, and a whole bunch of other stuff that went down recently in the crypto world.
It amuses me how the likes of Post acknowledge that decentralization is the future of social media but they’re not going to adopt it yet because they don’t know which protocol will “win”.
It doesn’t matter which protocol wins. It makes no difference if it’s ActivityPub or AT Protocol (Bluesky) or IMAP/SMTP.
What matters is that a social media message gets treated as a message.
Hence, interoperability.
ActivityPub isn’t perfect but it offers interoperability right now.
However, I realized that as soon as the W3C validated ActivityPub that this was going to be the standard for decentralized social media.
It has momentum. It’s what will build the network effect, and therefore the social graph, for decentralization.