Recently there has been a lot of dividing & heated discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol.

Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting, I proposed releasing a statement on this discourse, you can read the full statement here:

github.com/swicg/general/blob/master/statements/2025-09-05-activitypub-and-atproto-discourse.md

#activitypub #atprotocol #atproto #SocialWeb

September 06, 2025 - 13:33 UTC

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Thank you for doing that!
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Social Web CG is the group that currently maintains the ActivityPub and related specifications. SocialCG, SocialWG, and SWICG where the names of the group writing and maintaining the specifications.

The statement has been co-signed by members of the community, including AT Protocol people.
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“We do not win by tearing each other down, which only emboldens and empowers those who do not want either protocol to succeed.”

“Arguing between us only emboldens those that seek to derail and destroy efforts to build an open social web.”

#activitypub #atproto #atprotocol
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Thank you. You have no idea how much it meant to see this when all we've gotten (mostly) from AP people is hostility for a while. Seeing Evan's comment is really disappointing.

Are ATproto people still allowed to sign it or not anymore?
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His comment is disappointing but not surprising unfortunately
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I'm not sure where to direct signatures at this point in time, I'm waiting for feedback from people with more say than I. I published with the approval that I had received.
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we need one of these for Matrix & XMPP too :) (and probably Linux & *BSD. and vi and emacs…)
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I can't say I know those histories well, but I feel like the lead people in those projects didn't hate on each other's projects and yell about them, but instead that was a community tribalism that formed?
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