I don't care what anyone says. It's awesome to see fediverse replies appear on a Meta property.
Considering Threads isn't even a year old, this is enormous progress over anything Twitter ever did.
Jack claims that "Twitter should have been a protocol", but here we're seeing #ActivityPub interop being achieved as we live in breathe.
I know you've been working on this for a long time. ActivityPub was an evolution of Semantic Inbox and added an Outbox. An issue is that it is quite old tech, that didnt stick to the standards properly and needlessly tied identity to a domain. That has made moving domain very hard, and also compromises things like your private key left on the server. The nostr protocol improves an aspect of this by making idenitty domain independent. So moving apps is seamless. Of course the user could have the best of both worlds using NIP-05, but folks tend to use one system or another. At least for now. PS replying to you here from nostr, which is linked to my activitypub acct!
It's a battle between Centralization vs. Federation vs. Broadcasting protocols
What I think Jack means by a protocol is something that is hard to capture. ActivityPub to the degree that it's controlled by the W3C is incredibly easy to capture. It has become very political. If you had 6 people you could do that. A protocol like bitcoin is much harder to capture, it has been tried and resisted. Nostr is something in the middle, and could go in either direction. ActivityPub was incredibly political from day 1 and remains so to this day. So for example doing a bitcoin integration in AP would be an uphill struggle, but in nostr it was easy and seamless. Nostr has a higher innovation potential, because it is a relatively unpolitical protocol. However nostr politics has begun, and that may slow it down, we will have to wait and see how it goes...
