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RE: https://mastodon.social/@seboslaw/116053607853749962If public funding is being considered for a for-profit model, a robust and transparent technical assessment should be conducted first, including an evaluation of whether the AT Protocol is truly more scalable than ActivityPub.I disagree that the two are technically complementary. Currently, BlueSky operates as a largely centralized platform, allowing it to avoid many of the governance and moderation challenges inherent to decentralized networks.Its growth, with ~40 million users, shows that strong product design, marketing, and familiar timelines attract nontechnical audiences. This is a lesson in usability and investment, not necessarily a protocol advantage.If they complement each other, it is politically and socially, not architecturally. One has capital and media visibility. The other has a live, interoperable ecosystem in which public institutions are already participating.Public funding decisions should be made accordingly.#ATProtocol #ActivityPub #BlueSky #Mastodon #EU #DigitalSovereingty

@everton137 Thanks for the suggestion. The @Mastodon team has in fact been in Brussels the week before and the one before that as well I agree we can get better at communicating this. Rest assured we absolutely see the value in travelling there regularly although it will always be a question of priorities (vs. other efforts, which are arguably often equally or more important). I disagree with the implication that we don't have this on our radar at all and that we do "just" software (well).