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@Loosf That (AP/Mastodon being easy to spin up) was something I actually got into a bit with someone over on Bluesky on my now deleted personal account.

I was making the argument in a thread that I started, unrelated to anything, that AT Proto suffered mainly from being so complex to spin up and that ActivityPub had a strong advantage in that you could have something like, say, GoToSocial that was fully featured and yet lightweight and easy to deploy whereas AT Proto stuff is complicated, expensive, and requires the use of things like Docker containers so it's inherently unstable.

Well, in came that person to scold me about "not contributing to AT Proto," and trying to guilt me because they "wanted to stay mutuals but couldn't if I was going to keep attacking the protocol," as well as scolding me for promoting ActivityPub doing something right. They just did not want to hear AT ALL that AT Proto / Bluesky had flaws or places that it could improve.

It honestly does feel like a cult that supports it. If you dare to criticize or even simply point out that their claims don't match current reality, they threaten you with shunning and try to use guilt on you so you'll shut up. Very much like cult tactics; it unnerves me a LOT.