But there have been so many people out there claiming that ATProto really is a form of decentralized social media. All I’m saying is, OK. Let’s see it! C’mon! Do it! I’ll happily join the first truly decentralized public ATProto platform with no reliance on bsky infra or policies.

And yet hype cycles are real and many of them have bellyflopped. Microslop is similarly in real danger of shooting themselves in the foot with this terrible rebranding.

Two things come to mind:

a) Fedi really needs to grow beyond “Twitter clone for nerds”…most of the infra is already good, it’s more of a marketing problem now.

b) if ATProto doesn’t meaningfully evolve beyond Bluesky this year, it’s cooked at any hope of being convincingly decentralized. Time to put up or, well, y’know.

My money is on (a) being much more likely than (b), but we’ll see.

…and your point is?

I’m in this meme, and I don’t like it. 😄

Blockchain.

'Nuff said. 😂

All good on the wifi front here on Asahi Fedora Linux on Mac mini M1. 😁

Where’s PieFed? 😂

Honestly PieFed is the best thing that happened this year to the fediverse IMHO. I’m having a blast running my own instance and hope to make a lot of use of PieFed going into 2026 for both business and pleasure.

thank you!

Hello from my PF instance!

This release is fantastic , congratulations to you and the crew! 👏