It’s 2030 and new projects on the fediverse are thriving.
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It’s 2030 and new projects on the fediverse are thriving. What does that look like to you? Are they using activitypub? Has fedi come to include other protocols? How did we move past the Mastodon bottleneck? https://alaskan.social/@seachanger/113057960058866033
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
@seachanger I think we have dedicated inbox services that just receive (and maybe send) federated messages with minimal stateful processing. Maybe none? Anyway, other apps can integrate that service's API to build user experiences without having to individually implement whatever federation protocol. And without even needing to be perpetually online.
This is similar to the role that services like mailchimp and twillio play for email and sms, respectively.
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malena / bikes not bombsreplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
@jenniferplusplus what would this look and feel like for regular people like me?
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
@seachanger there's a few ways that could go. You might sign up for the inbox host yourself, and then give one or more apps access to it. The advantage of that is you would get seamless migrations between servers that support that API.
Or it might be an implementation detail that your server handles, which just makes it easier to build and operate those servers. You wouldn't have to know about it at all.
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
@seachanger and there's a 3rd possibility, that you treat it more like email and connect your own fedi client, sort of like using your own mail client.
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
@seachanger but given that 2030 is barely more than 5 years from now and it would probably be me building this, I think the most likely scenario is the backend detail that you don't even have to know about as a user.
It likely speaks both AP and ATPROTO (assuming bsky hasn't run out of cash and gone belly up by then), and the barrier to develop and run fedi apps for either or both is way lower because of this service.