People always say ‘yee haw’ but they never ask ‘haw yee?’

Trying to retrain my brain from “I’m tired, I don’t want to do exercise” to “if I do exercise I might feel less tired”

Sure! The basic thesis, really, is that AP is very server-oriented, whereas AT is more oriented around the individual user and their data.

So, while your data obviously does live on a server in an AT world, you aren’t necessarily too fussed about which server that is, and it can move - account portability is listed as their main reason to not use AP. So AT’s focus is more around individuals in one giant federated network, whereas AP as it’s mostly used today is more about communities which are themselves interoperable. Out-of-the-box AT is less interested in building narrower, more gated communities, though they do say it should be able to be narrowed down to support that.

I’d say AT Proto appeals to folks like me who run essentially single-user Mastodon instances and just want to chat to - and discover - the whole network, and possibly also to folks who are on the really big instances where they don’t work so much as communities in themselves. It’s perhaps less useful for folks in the many Fedi communities that are quite self-contained and just happen to want to talk to the wider world.

There’s also a good point made about how moderation and server administration are decoupled.

I’d say do read the interview, it’s a good one and Nilay is as always a great interviewer. There’s also a brief FAQ on the AT Proto website:

https://atproto.com/guides/faq#why-not-use-activitypub

I hadn’t used Firefox for quite a while but in my effort to get away from Chrome and with Safari not being available on Windows or Linux I’ve installed it. It’s really fast! I’d forgotten that.

A lovely spicy Sunday

Cycled into work for the first time this year and I feel great

My wee nephew just said “bye bye” to me on the phone, first words I’ve heard him say 🥲

Yesterday’s mammoth cooking project

My favourite thing about living in the UK is those magazines that report on what happens in soaps like it’s news. Must be utterly baffling for anyone who moves here

Hell yeah new Pope