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An article about the fediverse :fediverse: and ActivityPub by @pierce is on the front page of The Verge right now!
theverge.com/2023/4/20/2368957 #FediNews
20 Apr 2023 at 15:09 | Open on social.wake.st
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"So what is ActivityPub? It’s a technology through which social networks can be made interoperable, connecting everything to a single social graph and content-sharing system. It’s an old standard based on even older ideas about a fundamentally different structure for social networking, one that’s much more like email or old-school web chat than any of the platforms we use now." -@pierce

20 Apr 2023 at 15:17 | Open on social.wake.st
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[But the people who have been working on the web for decades, who have seen the energy around decentralization come and go so many times, claim it’s going to be different this time. “I think this year could be the breakout year for the Fediverse,” says Steve Teixeira (@stevetex), Mozilla’s chief product officer.]

20 Apr 2023 at 15:18 | Open on social.wake.st
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[Mike McCue (@mike), the CEO of Flipboard, echoes the sentiment: “I was there in the early days of the web, and this whole thing with ActivityPub is as big a deal as HTML was back then. This is the single biggest opportunity I’ve seen for the web since the dawn of the web.”]

20 Apr 2023 at 15:23 | Open on social.wake.st
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a @pixelfed embed of @dansup's cat with a quote from @cwebber about visions of a #p2p future on the front page of The Verge was not on my 2023 bingo card...
20 Apr 2023 at 15:26 | Open on social.wake.st
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