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Christine Lemmer-Webber

A lot of people contributed to ActivityPub, but I'm going to give a breakdown of the authors and what they did:

- Evan Prodromou designed the core prototol, derived from the federation API of Pump.IO (itself a "lessons learned" from his experiences co-authoring OStatus, ActivityPub's predecessor)
- @erincandescent converted Evan's set of notes into the spec format and language style
- @tsyesika was the first major editor of the spec once it was being standardized at the W3C
- @rhiaro separated out client-to-server support from server-to-server support and made many, many edits
- And I carried the spec through probably the majority of the bureaucratic process and tried really hard to get inter-project buy-in on its ideas. And most importantly, I wrote that "Overview" tutorial at the top of the document, which is the part I'm most proud of!

8 Nov 2022 at 11:32 | Open on octodon.social
28 comments
Manolo Martínez

@cwebber why is Prodromou not in the fediverse (if indeed he isn't)? Is there a story there?

8 Nov 2022 at 11:34 | Open on scholar.social
Christine Lemmer-Webber

@manolomartinez because he keeps meaning to run his own instance before he joins and he keeps not getting around to it :P

8 Nov 2022 at 11:34 | Open on octodon.social
Manolo Martínez

@cwebber lol, thanks! I have fond memories of identi.ca and everything that followed.

8 Nov 2022 at 11:35 | Open on scholar.social
Christine Lemmer-Webber

@manolomartinez me too! The number of people who were around for that era are getting proportionally small, though I've also seen many of them re-appearing on the fediverse. But most importantly that's because the fediverse has grown *so much* that those people are just a small part of the fedi's population, which is pretty neat!

8 Nov 2022 at 11:36 | Open on octodon.social
Manolo Martínez

@cwebber it was just 10-ish years ago, though! Which is admittedly millennia in internet years

8 Nov 2022 at 11:37 | Open on scholar.social
Rigo Wenning

@cwebber @manolomartinez some of them were just in unrelated related circles :)

8 Nov 2022 at 21:30 | Open on mamot.fr
mcg

@cwebber @manolomartinez I miss Evan and this sounds very much on brand for him 😀

8 Nov 2022 at 12:09 | Open on social.lol
The Embodiment of RED :fire_t:

@mcg @cwebber @manolomartinez I miss Evan, too; I came across him on the internet because I used to play a silly click-click web game with his brother, Ted 🙂​

8 Nov 2022 at 12:13 | Open on hackers.town
Manolo Martínez

@thraeryn @mcg @cwebber there was a RED Matrix / Zot protocol moment in fediverse history, too. Unrelated to you, I suppose :)

8 Nov 2022 at 12:17 | Open on scholar.social
The Embodiment of RED :fire_t:

@manolomartinez Unrelated, but what physical manifestation of a color doesn't like to see a little love in naming? 😅​

8 Nov 2022 at 12:30 | Open on hackers.town
varx/tech

@cwebber @manolomartinez Big Knuth vibes on that.

"Hmm, I'm not happy with the options available, I'll make my own protocol!"

That tracks with procrastinating on joining because you don't have your own instance. 😆

8 Nov 2022 at 14:37 | Open on infosec.exchange
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Mien Yung

@cwebber @erincandescent @tsyesika @rhiaro :bongoCat: :coolcat: :firedoge: :eve: :KEKW: :owi: :tinking: :thinkhappy: :ThisTBH: :unarist: :toot:

Probably Pr0n? 😽
8 Nov 2022 at 11:50 | Open on mastodon.social
Benjamin

@cwebber @erincandescent @tsyesika @rhiaro Think the earliest I've used is GNU Social. But OStatus sounds super familiar so I might have to do some digging. It's been incredible to use over the years!

8 Nov 2022 at 11:52 | Open on mastodon.social
Benjamin

@cwebber It must be something seeing ActivityPub be put to the test like this - or at least each Fediverse's implementation?

8 Nov 2022 at 12:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Kevin P. Fleming

@cwebber Has there been any discussion of creating a URI scheme for ActivityPub identifiers so browsers could forward them to a consuming application?

8 Nov 2022 at 11:55 | Open on mastodon.km6g.us
Andy C
@cwebber @erincandescent @tsyesika @rhiaro

Looked up what Evan is doing now. He's still on Twitter but recently posted this blog - 'Enough with Twitter'

'Most of all, I’ve been seeing in myself the self-destructive, addictive behaviour we all know comes from social media use.'

Interviewed the great man for a podcast. he was on holiday with this family but made time for us and was amusing, intelligent and thought provoking.

https://evanp.me/2022/10/29/enough-with-twitter/
@cwebber @erincandescent @tsyesika @rhiaro

Looked up what Evan is doing now. He's still on Twitter but recently posted this blog - 'Enough with Twitter'
8 Nov 2022 at 12:07 | Open on pleroma.stream
Rosco Kid

@cwebber @erincandescent @tsyesika @rhiaro

Loved identi.ca , always grateful to Evan for that

8 Nov 2022 at 12:23 | Open on mastodon.ie
John West

@cwebber @erincandescent @tsyesika @rhiaro I’ve read my fair share of dry docs, and yours is a really great—and super readable—spec! Thank you!

8 Nov 2022 at 13:19 | Open on journa.host
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HerrThees
Ondřej Pokorný

@cwebber @erincandescent @tsyesika @rhiaro You should all be giving interviews to the Time magazines of the world...
Thanks for all the hard work that went into this.

8 Nov 2022 at 13:29 | Open on social.unextro.net
Nick Wood

@cwebber @erincandescent @tsyesika @rhiaro Oh wow, I recall reading about Pump.io way back in my startup days

8 Nov 2022 at 15:38 | Open on sfba.social
Chris Guidry
Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎

Thank you for mentioning this. I've been wanting to get to know these people more.

@cwebber @erincandescent @tsyesika @rhiaro

8 Nov 2022 at 16:27 | Open on mastodon.social
Steren

@cwebber @erincandescent @tsyesika @rhiaro Great to see that Evan Prodromou has been working in that space for more than 12 years. I remember following Evan's work at the time of StatusNet. A great success story, congrats

8 Nov 2022 at 16:45 | Open on status.steren.fr
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Dr. Quadragon ❌
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