is bluesky the most direct competitor to farcaster? 

apple : microsoft = farcaster : x?

if you had to pick one which one is it?

I’d say Mastodon. For ppl I know that are choosing to leave Twitter they are either coming here or going there. Still a bit early for BlueSky to say where it falls.

Working on SoundOff https://apps.apple.com/app/soundoff-daily-conversation/id1661147373  and Druck https://apple.co/3GXl1Ya

i’m a fairly advanced and technical user, and i did get in but after a lot of struggles. def harder than wallet connect so not sure where it’s land in the mainstream consumer land.

Agreed. I think all of these have a ways to go before the onboarding is good enough for mainstream usage.

There are 10M users on ActivityPub. I _think_ about 70% are on Mastodon.

The number of users who onboard mobile first is growing, which is a lot easier than the web interface.

Medium, Flipboard, and Mozilla all have their own server instances. 

Strong signal that Tumblr will turn on ActivityPub support.

Web Tinkerer. DWeb. Open Source. Community. Just another one of the bees 🐝

Likely that AP wins _as a social network_ for now.

Farcaster and ATProtocol are both protocols and can potentially power a “social layer” as well as portable data schemas. 

Ceramic/3Box sort of started with this plan too but are mostly focused on data now.