@rick I think the problem is with the signatures. @hongminhee gave me a bug report and I'm working on it right now. I'll let you know when I have it live and tested. Thanks for your persistence!
I am also, but maybe in a different way.
As someone who helped create ActivityPub and works every day to promote its use, I absolutely believe that everyone should make and use ActivityPub-native software. At SWF, we only do ActivityPub projects.
But if someone chooses to build on ATProto, and to make their software and accounts bridgeable so we can stay connected, that's infinitely better than being cut off entirely.
I mentioned elsewhere that I think supporting the openness of the Atmosphere is important for whatever comes next there. Whether BlueSky thrive or don't survive, the more the ATproto stack is standardized and independent, the better it is for the Fediverse.
@julian I already have access to the package.
@julian anyways, moved and shipped!
@steve @trwnh @hongminhee ha! That was the notice that got me to become a maintainer. But I don't have the admin rights to change it!
@jasnell can you give admin rights on the activitystrea.ms repo so I can change the message and also push automatically?
@evan James archived the repo today, assumably in response to this question. I'm going to keep working from my personal fork, and I'll use that to push to npm. I think I can update the info in package.json on the topic, too. A change that's been waiting too long.
@solarbranka yes, great idea!
Since they have $100M in the bank, 3 is probably a way off. AFACT, they are currently doing both 1 and 2 in parallel; if you look at their protocol engineers, I do believe they are really all in on 1, but much of the rest of the company is taking every opportunity to act in a decentralized manner and going in the opposite direction.
@ricci @hamishcampbell @_elena well, they had $100M when they raised money last year.
Crypto funds love to rollover crypto assets. So maybe some of it was in crypto, like Bitcoin, which has since dropped 25% against USD.
And they've been operating a tech startup with 20-30 staff and dozens of contractors, plus hosting costs which are somewhere in the $20-50M/year range, I'd bet.
If I had to guess on runway for BlueSky today, I'd say 12-24 months.
@julian @evan @njvack @dgfitch @skinnylatte @tankgrrl @Viss @ai6yr @mayintoronto
Wow that is just brilliant. I love how the SFO *airport museum* staff just went off and figured out how to track items (and planes visiting the airport!) and everything in a low-cost scalable way that totally plugs into the Fediverse. Neat! :fediverse:
@mastodonmigration @hamishcampbell @_elena I won't argue with this. Having two incompatible stacks hurts the entire ecosystem. When developers and decisionmakers see that, it makes them want to sit back and wait to see what comes out on top.
I think our best mitigation for that right now is reassurance that investing time, energy and money into ActivityPub will not be a waste.
💯 Slow and steady wins the race. It is just frustrating that people are so easily distracted by bright shiny objects.
@solarbranka that's surprising; I don't think that should be possible. I'll test it more thoroughly and let you know.
@hamishcampbell @_elena the good part is that this is what we should do in the best case scenario, too. So, all worthwhile.
@hamishcampbell @_elena one other thing: bridging is really important for us all right now. It's how we can tell developers to implement ActivityPub and still get access to the BlueSky audience. I hope everyone works to support BridgyFed.