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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
grace@social.lol ("🏳️⚧️ Grace 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
@cwebber I think you have it backwards...
Mastodon is the protocol (specifically, it's a decentralized blockchain protocol), and Bluesky is just a Layer-2 dApp built on top of it. The underlying tech you're trying to reference is ATProto, which actually stands for Asynchronous Token Protocol.
It’s honestly a pretty elegant stack if you actually understand distributed systems, but I get why someone would be confused by the nomenclature.
To really wrap your head around this, you need to stop thinking about it like a social network and start thinking about it as a fungible data layer.