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for clarity, Bluesky is an app and ATProtocol is an Open Social fabric they built along with it and what Bluesky is built on top of

In the long-term, ATProtocol will be separated from Bluesky the company and end up as a standards and in some shared governance structure

There are already working alternate implementations of every protocol component.

So what, the governance is not open and what good is a perfectly written engineering spec without the actual place where people hang out? It’s just a lot of tech jargon masking yet-another “let’s make someone very rich” scheme.

They’re actually making first steps to bring it to IETF: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf

You can be as cynical as you like but I actually tried hard to avoid tech jargon in the article. I’d appreciate you giving it a read — happy to answer questions or discuss specific concerns.

They took VC a long time ago.