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  • Aug 23, 2026, 8:33 PM

    @stefan@stefanbohacek.online @doriane@post.lurk.org I really hate posts like these.

    Sure, ATProto's funding, governance, coding all suck. But this post makes improving ActivityPub hard, as it delegitimises any discussion about things AP could improve.

    The account portability, as an example, is nowhere near what ATProto does and I don't count it as a solution. It requires the source server to be online and cooperating. Someone fucking up their server and not having a backup is out of luck, and so is anyone using Pixelfed (where people on the main instance can't migrate followers right now).

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    can maybe be solved (even if they aren't now and the proposed solutions aren't good solutions), but this doesn't change that, right now, ATProto does some stuff better, and ActivityPub should strive to actually improve rather than going "lalalalala everything is perfect here actually".

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  • Aug 23, 2026, 9:51 PM

    @kbruen

    Sorry, not sure where you're getting "everything is perfect here actually".

    And yeah, nomadic identity and perfect account migration across all of the fediverse would be great, I would very much love that!

    Alas, I don't have the time and expertise to help implement it, nor enough money to fund the necessary work, sorry.

    @doriane

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  • Aug 23, 2026, 11:52 PM

    @kbruen @stefan i'm sorry i asked in the initial post exactly with this intention: knowing not everything is perfect here and that they are other things. i know ActivityPub failed multiple social situations or movements. ATProto is more recent and they are enthusiast, so as a fediverse user i wanna understand the bigger picture!!! i also know a lot of people are going to give me their crispy hot takes opinions and tbh that's what i am asking for :)

    for example thanks to your post i learned this thing about account migration in ActivityPub that the source server need to be online and cooperating, which i agree is big constraint and a difference worth noting, and exactly the type of answer i was looking for. thank youu

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