lumpen 🍉 III (@scrum)

@cyrus great article, i've probably been guilty of spreading FUD about AT so I do appreciate and honest and informed assessment, and tbh most of my and other people's opposition to AT is rooted in political anti-corporate considerations that have noting to do wit the protocol as such.

I still don't quite understand the benefits of AT over AP, since as you explain black lists and filters can be / already are implemented on AP based instances, it's just not baked into the protocol -- the only benefit I can see is less resources since small instances don't have to worry about caching other instances data, but this isn't necessarily bad, because a well known issue with amateur run small instances is spotty uptime, since inboxes are cached locally you may still see (some) posts from the users you follow even if their instance is down at the moment.

also bridging AP/AT or adding AT support is fine, i think adding support for wonky Diaspora or GnuSocial is also good for federation generally.

Out of curiosity, have you looked into Hubzilla's Zot protocol? it seems to address many of the issues lacking from AP like identity management/privacy through cryptographic signatures, they have a 'nomadic identity' system that makes migration incredibly easy. But since Zot has such limited adoption it's hard to tell how well it works in practice.