replying to @Rayiumir
Microsoft would not be buying it to monetize it. They would be buying to make Github more attractive as a product.
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Johannes Ernst
@jernst
Engineer, founder and organizer.
- Dazzle, FediForum
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- Joined October 2026
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It remains to be seen whether this social network is sufficiently profitable to make a buyer interested in acquiring it.
replying to @paulinevos
We have good intros from the horse's mouth :-) @dholms.at on the FediForum PeerTube channel: https://spectra.video/w/mDnE8FbYh1PXiaCPxsniGQ and https://spectra.video/w/kMDcYtWDeHhJbFb3zxcRX3
Spectra VideoFediForum Talk: Atproto: A Technical IntroductionBy Daniel Holmgren, head of protocol at Bluesky PBC. AT Protocol (atproto) is the open protocol powering Bluesky and the emerging Atmosphere. This talk gives a high-level overview of atproto's app...
replying to @paulinevos
It's a different architecture.
ActivityPub is: you do things on your website, I do things on my website, and we can set it up so my website receives updates from your website, and vice versa, so we can implement a decentralized social network (among other things)
ATProto so far…
Clearly I've not kept up with ATProto enough, cause last I checked their main reason to exist seemed to be proof of identity
replying to @paulinevos
ActivityPub may be easier to integrate: a straight add-on of functionality. And there is Bridgy Fed to bridge into ATProto.
Yep, and to be perfectly honest I've never fully understood what ATProto's merits were over AP. In fact I thought it was a little party poopy behavior to veer away from AP although ~supposedly~ they had reason to
replying to @jalcine
yes, and that wouldn't interoperate with anything else in the ATProto ecosystem.
replying to @jalcine
Can github.com/jernst identifiers be used with the ATProto identity system?
GitHubjernst - OverviewEngineer, founder and organizer. jernst has 38 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
I mean, the adage in the ATProto space is that "you can do anything", lol. Someone could make a DID that resolves to a GitHub profile (like
did:github:jernst) but I imagine that'll require GitHub's blessing.replying to @chrismessina
Not sure how to integrate with ATProto beyond auth, though. Would be easier to make it an ActivityPub server.
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