I’ve had this idea of the ActivityPub Protocol powering Mastodon, Threads, and others in The Fediverse, as a kind of Rube-Goldberg Machine.

“A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction -type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way.”

Wikipedia

What kind of Rube-Goldberg Machine ?

The MouseTrap Boardgame from childhood.

I captioned the following images to get the idea out of my head.

Whereas Two-Way RSS remains Simple and Direct . . .

N.B. The AT Protocol powering BlueSky

To Wit

Good morning

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— Jay (@jay.bsky.team) Apr 25, 2024 at 2:28 p.m.

Likely will social post these at some point, if so, then on my dormant Mastodon account.

OR/AND

This is enough self-incentive to sign up for BlueSky and make my first post using these images.

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