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Mike Masnick ✅ (Mastodon) aka @
Mike Masnick (Bluesky) wrote an interesting article called
Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media which stirred up some passionate discussions in
this thread on Mastodon.
As someone who advocates for Hubzilla, which uses the Zot Protocol, it usually feels like we are a third party candidate in a popularity contest between ActivityPub and AT Protocol, or between Mastodon and Bluesky.
And I do have to chuckle when y'all mention "new and innovative features" that have existed in Hubzilla 5 to 10 years before you even started working on your variations. For example, nomadic identity has been in Zot Protocol before Bluesky even started. It might be older than Mastodon too, I am not sure. We even have federated single sign on using OpenWebAuth.
So, this has gotten me to thinking about why protocols become popular, and what is necessary to propagate ideas, philosophies, and systems. Compared to Hubzilla's long history, I am relatively new to Hubzilla and the social web, so I have the unique ability to compare what works and what doesn't between protocols, platforms, and their advocates.
A lot of interesting things to think about.
