alt Hacker News> But it seems dominated by the one software that is Mastodon, and it doesn't seem to have a universe of interesting connected neat social softwares sprouting up left and right.
There's quite a few activitypub software that plays nicely with mastodon, it seems to me. Like, Wordpress has an official activitypub plugin that allows likes, replys, following and all that. Lemmy, snac, pixelfed, bookwyrm, misskey, peertube, pleroma..
There's even work on distributed/custom recommendation going on.
I think it's fair to like either atproto or activitypub (I like both!), and bluesky certainly has momentum, but I don't think one can reasonably say the other side is not moving.
The only significant motion I've seen in years in the AP space is Bridgy/A New Social and Wafrn. And while having investment and conferences isn't the only sign of life, it's notable that AP hasn't had once since the first in 2020 while AT is headed into its second building on all that started at the first.
It's neat that some websites communicate on AP, but every single one compounds the problems AT attempts to solve. You talk about software playing nice with Mastodon while AT is converging on standard lexicons and Cisco is investing in changing the nature of the relay for the better:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-nandakumar-atproto-ato...
https://bsky.app/profile/ipv.sx/post/3mg4h4tncmk2l