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I realize it's not a popular topic around here, but I fear there's a storm coming if this catches. No matter how much we true believers see ActivityPub as the best approach to global social media, it does have a number of issues, as we know. Most of the public doesn't care about the big picture. They never really have.

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CartyBoston
CartyBoston
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We need to see #ActivityPub as, by definition, the app/activity protocol that subsumes all the other app/activity protocols.

That's exactly the approach the e.g. TCP/IP standards bodies chose and it quietly worked, the telcos and IBM were unseated.
#activitypub
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Helge
Helge
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This is a good mindset. However, I think there are "two fights". One about the right protocol to use. ActivityPub as a protocol can win this.

The other fight is about how to do social media (whatever that is). The ideas behind the current ActivityPub based Mastodon centric FediVerse might not win. I'm not even sure they should. There's plenty of bad stuff in it. Things like "protable accounts" (advertised for ATProto) are just poor storage-choice artifacts and have nothing to do with ActivityPub.
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Shoq
Shoq
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I agree. I am among those who consider Masto merely at the proof of concept stage, and as long as one brand and a BDFL is controlling the most popular feature sets and direction., it's all vulnerable to better models. But they will have a lot of trouble finding adherents .
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vagabond
vagabond
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We need to move away from #feudalism as a governance model #OGB
#OGB #feudalism
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