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It's 2025, and there's still no widely-used standardized RPC protocol for #WebSocket.

I've looked from time to time, and I never find anything. WAMP is perhaps the closest, but it's massively complex, needs a separate router, and the company that "owns" it (Crossbar) is dead.

What else is there? I see the occasional attempt at JSON-RPC or gRPC over WebSocket, but each implementation is unique and nonstandard. I'm half considering writing my own based on Lexicon (w/o the #ATProto XRPC baggage).

Replied to mbajur

@mbajur the #atproto docs are a full spec, #activitypub leaves a lot as "implementation details".

They likely serve fairly different use cases but unfortunately a comprehensive analysis is missing.

My gut feeling, activitypub will be the one dominating highly tailored communities, while atproto more large public forums

"The New Yorker profiled Bluesky CEO Jay Graber.

It also includes a nugget that Graber and Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko met about having the platforms interoperate, but “each told me that the other seemed more interested in having the rival platform migrate onto their own protocol,” author Kyle Chayka writes."

Original post: theverge.com/news/644670/the-n

The New Yorker Post 👉 archive.is/WPV8C

The Verge · The New Yorker profiled Bluesky CEO Jay Graber.By Jay Peters

He desactivado la cuenta de bluesky al final, estoy cansado :nkoOwO:

Sobre todo por las listas de bloqueo te meten en varias y te joden vivo, que los bloqueos sean públicos no me gusta nada y sobretodo la ausencia de cuentas privadas en pleno 2025 😿

En fin necesito un descanso de bluesky :a2love:

Si implementan las cuentas privadas volveré pero en la Atmosphereconf paul CTO de bluesky dijo que no sería como la implementación de twitter y me echa muchisimo para atrás

I tried installing skylight.social/ (short form video app that uses the AT Protocol) on my “degoogled” GrapheneOS phone just to see what it's like, and it immediately demanded that I install Google Play services in order to use it

It's possible to sandbox them on Graphene OS and I do have a user account with them for my banking app, but I'm really not interested in using a social app that demands them

Thinking about internet protocols like #activitypub or #atproto as just "social media", namely platforms for sharing cat images, influencers and followers, shitposting and memes, trolls and flamewars etc. is missing the point entirely.

These are merely emergent behaviors when people interact with primitive forms of "digital society".

In truth these are "societal media", they increasingly capture a good fraction of human reality. The masters of #surveillancecapitalism know this all too well.

Destroying Autocracy – 27 March 2025

Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.

It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.

DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.

FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.

Featured Item

The Register reports:

EU OS is a proposal for an immutable KDE-based Linux distribution with a Windows-like desktop, designed for use in European public-sector organizations.

Rather than a new distro, it’s a website that documents planning such a thing, what functions the OS might need, how to deploy and manage it, and how to handle users.

EU OS drafts a locked-down Linux blueprint for Eurocrats

This needs to be implemented quickly and then exported to non-EU, non-fascist states as well.

We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.

The response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery

The Kyiv Independent reports:

Italy suspends Starlink purchase negotiations with SpaceX amid Musk controversy

Voice of America journalists sue Trump administration following president’s order to gut free press

The Register reports:

OTF, which backs Tor, Let’s Encrypt and more, sues to save funding from Trump cuts

US defense contractor cops to sloppy security, settles after infosec lead blows whistle

Wired reports:

How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To

Trump’s Aggression Sours Europe on US Cloud Giants

MIT Technology Review reports on:

Why the world is looking to ditch US AI models

In news sure to make Cory Doctorow happy, Tech Policy reports:

Interoperability in the EU: A Judgment Opens the Door

NPR reports:

As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them

California announces:

Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers

404 Media reports:

Mozilla Foundation Calls on Tech Industry to Block ICE Contractor

The Guardian reports:

A French university is offering ‘scientific asylum’ for US talent. The brain drain has started

The Huffington Post reports:

Pete Hegseth Sued Over Signal Text Debacle

The Kyiv Post reports:

First Surveillance Satellite of Planned Czechia-Ukrainian Constellation in Orbit

The Kyiv Independent reports:

’89 hours of non-stop work’ — Ukrainian Railways’ battle against a cyberattack by ‘the enemy’

TechCrunch reports:

Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance

The Reader makes:

The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards

Neutral

Tech Policy has:

Scientists Respond to FTC Inquiry into Tech Censorship

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

The Verge asks:

Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?

It’s not safe to travel to the U.S. period. Or even within it by air.

DarkReading reports:

US Weakens Disinformation Defenses, as Russia & China Ramp Up

Heisse reports:

US-Behörde stoppt Gelder für Let’s Encrypt und Tor ‒ Open Tech Fund wehrt sich

Tech Policy reports on:

AI Surveillance on the Rise in US, but Tactics of Repression Not New

How the White House is Gaslighting the World About Europe’s Digital Laws

On a related note to The Guardian article above, Not a Tech Bro has:

Not invented here

Pariah States

BleepingComputer reports:

Cyberattack takes down Ukrainian state railway’s online services

DarkReading reports:

Meet the Low-Key Access Broker Supercharging Russian State Cybercrime

FCC Investigates China-Backed Tech Suppliers for Evading US Operations Ban

Iran’s MOIS-Linked APT34 Spies on Allies Iraq & Yemen

Big Media

America2 reports:

The Substack Dilemma: How Creators Are Inadvertently Fueling America’s Failure

Nothing personal but if you are on Substack, you’re a fascist or uninformed or an amoral c^nt.

Vanity Fair reports:

Trump’s Attacks on Press Freedom Are Paving the Way for Authoritarianism

The Washington Examiner reports:

Kari Lake withdraws cancellation of Radio Free Europe funding

Big Tech

Politico reports:

Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest

How surprising. Two set of c^nts work together.

MIT Technology Review reports:

Why handing over total control to AI agents would be a huge mistake

Tech Policy asks:

Will Ireland be Big Tech’s Lapdog Yet Again?

Blood in the Machine opines:

OpenAI’s Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself

Smashing Frames calls it a:

Vulgar Display of Power

Cybersecurity/Privacy

The Register reports:

As nation-state hacking becomes ‘more in your face,’ are supply chains secure?

BleepingComputer reports:

New VanHelsing ransomware targets Windows, ARM, ESXi systems

TechCrunch reports:

How to tell if your online accounts have been hacked

404 Media reports:

When Your Threat Model Is Being a Moron

You Need to Use Signal’s Nickname Feature

The Verge reports:

Vivaldi bundles Proton VPN into its web browser

Fediverse

The Fediverse Report has:

Fediverse Report – #109

Arxiv has a research paper:

FediverseSharing: A Novel Dataset on Cross-Platform Interaction
Dynamics between Threads and Mastodon Users

Letterbook has a:

Development Update

Fedihost has some how to videos:

Creating A GoToSocial Instance on FediHost

Configuring A PeerTube Instance

Reset Digital for Good has:

Dezentrale YouTube-Alternative PeerTube: Nachhaltiger dank Peer-to-Peer?

Elena Rossini shares:

PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 2: creator edition)

Other Slightly Federated Social Media

The Fediverse Report has:

ATmosphere Report – 2025march.b

TechCrunch reports:

A world without Caesars: How the ATProto community is rebuilding the web to return power to the people

Hmm. Are they really? They sure as fuck aren’t as social media. The web, let’s hope so.

Geekwire reports on:

The under-the-radar tech revolution that could change how the internet works

I think this is more accurate.

CTAs (aka show us some free love)

Keep fighting!

Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
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#109 #ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #ATProtocol #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Bluesky #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #GoToSocial #Mastodon #Peertube #Signal #StopChina #StopIran #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #Threads

battalion.mobileatom.net/?p=16

Das ist doch alles Blödsinn bis Betrug. Sie tun so, als würden sie nicht den einzigen Big Graph Service des Netzwerks betreiben (und andere wird es wahrscheinlich nie geben, weil zu kostenprohibitiv).

»But although #Bluesky is the largest app built on #ATProto at this time, the social network itself was not the ATmosphere Conference’s focus. Here, Bluesky was just another developer«

techcrunch.com/2025/03/25/a-wo

TechCrunch · A world without Caesars: How the atproto community is rebuilding the web to return power to the people | TechCrunchThe first in-person gathering devoted to those building with the AT Protocol — which powers Bluesky — was held in Seattle.