• Lucia [she/her]@eviltoast.org
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    7 months ago

    the primary motivator is probably PR

    They could go a bluesky route and build their own protocol so they could have more control over it. I don’t think non-techy people would care about federation to be honest.

    • Masimatutu@mander.xyz
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      7 months ago

      Fair point, but they also have to please the EU, which won’t buy them creating a new protocol with two existing ones gaining major traction, of which one is w3c standard.

      e: typo