Samuel
ok how about this: AP: you have multiple twitters that talk to each other AT: what if twitter drew its data from the open web?
dan@danabra.mov· 30 Oct 2024
i wonder if diagrams like these might help draw the distinction between ActivityPub (and how Mastodon uses it) and AT Protocol (and how it’s used by Bluesky and atproto apps)? with AP, instance = application + hosting. data gets sent between instances. with AT, data flows *from* hosting *to* apps
diagram with multiple application+hosting boxes. each box contains some users and some posts. data is sent between the boxes.a diagram with two layers. in the top layer, users choose hosting (and their data is stored in their hosting). the data then flows down from hosting into separate apps which mirror and aggregate the data they receive from hosting. the hosting boxes are drawn with dashed borders to indicate they're not fixed, and the user may move their data between different hosting without affecting the applications.
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John O'Nolan
I would say AP: what if social worked like email AT: what if social worked like torrents I think using "twitter" as the base metaphor is too reductive to describe either protocol
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Samuel
@samuel.fm
I think keeping it scoped to twitter/bluesky/mastodon is helpful to compare more directly
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