Gregory's Server@atomicpoet I second that - for me my position is "I don't care if the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice". If the AT protocol turns out to be superior then I'm all for Mastodon and others to adopt the protocol.
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 @rigo @CommissarMatis I mean, Zot protocol was essentially made by one guy all by himself. @atomicpoet @CommissarMatis this isn't the point. HTTP was essentially made up by one guy all by himself in CERN. As was HTML. See the difference? @rigo @CommissarMatis And much of ActivityPub didnβt start at the W3C. It was an iteration of OStatus. And prior to that, work done by @evan with his startup identi.ca. Now one thing I will say is that W3C validation was important, and was probably what created momentum for broad adoption. Anyway, competition isnβt bad. If anything, AT protocol could be the kick in the pants to improve ActivityPub. @atomicpoet @CommissarMatis @evan I don't think a single thing was started at W3C, except PICS perhaps. And I'm all ears when it comes to improving ActivityPub. @rigo @CommissarMatis @evan Well, letβs start with something obvious: nomadic identity.  @atomicpoet @rigo @CommissarMatis what do you mean by "nomadic identity"? @atomicpoet If you mean being able to move a public identity between implementations, that's what the URL- or Webfinger-based identity is supposed to let you do. You should be able to export data from a Mastodon server, import it to another system, change the DNS, and everything just keeps on working. I realise that's not how things work right now, but that's the intention of the protocol. Your identity is your Webfinger, and you can move it where you want. @evan I guess one of the frustrating aspects of ActivityPub is that it can do a lot of things βin theoryβ. But so much of its potential isnβt being fully utilized in practice. @atomicpoet @evan Personally I think ActivityPub is still in the early days. Give it time. Eventually we'll see full utilization of it's potential. |
@CommissarMatis @atomicpoet this neglects that ActivityPub was created by a Working Group in a painful minority protecting process getting to consensus and passing Internationalization and Accessibility tests as well as a privacy review.
While the other one is just made up by some billionaire.
Good luck comparing and succumbing for some light perceived advantage. Happy lock-in π