> Yeah, I have read about the things they want to do which are mostly cryptography related and which have absolutely zero reasoning as to _why_ they can't be done with ActivityPub.
I guess the race is on, then. Surely ActivityPub, with its much larger user and developer base, will grab the best ideas from AT Protocol and squash this redundant newcomer.
Yeah, AT Protocol being "funded" by one company (Bluesky PBLLC) and ActivityPub being indirectly "funded" by multiple companies + organizations, some of them being Nextcloud GmbH, Framasoft (PeerTube), Tumblr (Yahoo).
Seems based on that variable, ActivityPub has the benefit of being more widespread, but that tends to also make changes go through slower. ActivityPub being a specification maintained by W3C also make changes extra slow, but stable at least, while AT Protocol probably won't have any stability guarantees for a long time.
I guess the race is on, then. Surely ActivityPub, with its much larger user and developer base, will grab the best ideas from AT Protocol and squash this redundant newcomer.