@atomicpoet on some level, ActivityStreams can be seen as just a conceptual evolution of rss.

Hear me out.

We wanted to federate what we published and make it easily accessible.

Next, we wanted to federate interactions.

The protocol has potential to become something that empowers a lot of new things.

We didn’t know how big podcasts would become when we first saw rss.

It’s hard to tell what big things will be built on top of this technology.