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"Evan Prodromou evan@cosocial.ca
@everton137 it was created because Jack Dorsey thought Twitter could spin out a business with a protocol as a product. They would connect big social networks, using the Twitter user and content base as an enticement. Those networks would pay BS to develop and maintain the pipes connecting servers.
using an existing open standard wouldn't work for this business model, because those big social networks could connect without paying anything to BS. They needed to make a new, incompatible protocol that other businesses had to pay for.
Twitter gave them $13M, and they raised another $8M. They've squandered that money developing their proprietary protocol. They're losing: we're getting more and more implementers supporting ActivityPub. They're going to go out of business, and then ATProto will disappear.
my knowledge of this is firsthand. I talked with Parag, then CTO of Twitter, about it when BS first started. He laid out the entire business plan for me."
