#Bluesky and #Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media
▻https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-are-having-a-fight-that-could-shape-the-next-
Software developer Ryan Barrett found this out the hard way when he set out to connect the AT Protocol and #ActivityPub with a bridge called Bridgy Fed.
The conflict harks back to blogging culture in the early 2000s, when people worried about their innermost thoughts and feelings being indexed on Google. These bloggers wanted their posts to be public, so that they could try to form communities with like-minded people on platforms like LiveJournal, but they didn’t want their intimate musings to accidentally fall into the wrong hands.