In the UK and some other places they're falling.

My mind is going. I can feel it.

Google do try and kill off standards from time to time. Killing RSS meant more clicks to websites, more trackers, more ads, more data. But a worse experience for the world. I'm glad to see RSS making a small resurgence lately. We must protect it!

I used to strap a 486 DX2/66 to my wrist, but by the time it could tell me it was lunchtime, dinner was being served.

The AT protocol is interesting from a technical perspective - but largely does what ActivityPub was already doing. ActivityPub already has huge applications with milllions of users (see Mastodon, GoToSocial, PixelFed, Spectra/Video etc). Join the Fediverse. It's cooler than Bluesky both literally and figuratively. IMHO obviously...