Gregory's Server@rysiek wouldn't it help if the ActivityPub protocol and future developments of it was maintained by the IETF or some other standards organisation?
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@rysiek well, look at that! That is a sign of maturity, and I'll guess that OStatus didn't have this when the mentioned fragmentation happened? There are no guarantees ever that one instance/brand won't get big enough to break away from the ecosystem and manage on their own, to everyone's detriment probably. Still, it's an interesting discussion. I don't really know enough about the alternatives to Mastodon-The-Software. Some questions popped up: @rysiek I've migrated my account from one Mastodon instance to another. Could I also migrate to another type of instance if I wanted? For example, migrate my account from a Mastodon instance to another instance running GNU Social? Could a site admin migrate their entire site, including users and content, to another software? Eg from Mastodon to Friendica or GNU Social?  > Could I also migrate to another type of instance if I wanted? Probably, depends on the other instance software. > Could a site admin migrate their entire site, including users and content, to another software? That's almost certainly way trickier. |
@kefir like, say, W3C?
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
I do think there is some need for some sort of Fediverse-representing organization. There had been many debates about that, and they inevitably always run into problems related to who has what kind of power in such an org, and what kind of power such an org itself should have.
That's a whole separate can of worms, and way beyond the scope of my blogpost, but of course a valid topic to discuss.
@kefir like, say, W3C?
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
I do think there is some need for some sort of Fediverse-representing organization. There had been many debates about that, and they inevitably always run into problems related to who has what kind of power in such an org, and what kind of power such an org itself should have.