#Fediverse:

smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)

#Microblogging-galore. Twitter-like-but-decentralized, ideal for -posting short msgs back and forth. Been there, done that.

#ActivityPub. Communication protocol for defining activities and objects and model rich human interactions in online social networks. To be explored.

Sarven Capadisli

@smallcircles I don't really see the fundamental or significant difference. They both impose constraints on expression either by way of the protocol or information structure. Useful for what's intended. (They don't strictly model real-life. No one really says "send me regular updates about your life activities", but the equivalent in person: "what's up?")

If comparison makes sense, good ol' blogging is generally broader on what can be communicated.

Human- and machine-readability being equal.

smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)

@csarven yes, you're right. It's more the perspective that I lightheartedly teased a bit with.

Imho we are focused so much on what others have labeled "social media" and we create our decentralized version of what existed before. If all we have is a hammer, every problem is a nail. We had microblogging and now we add blogs and forums. Not bad, not at all.

Yet social networking is what we did offline for 1,000's of years. And now we have online channels to further enrich our human interactions.

_jayrope

@smallcircles (Humanity Now

) I don't think, that Hubzilla, Friendica, Misskey, Pleroma or (streams) are #microblogging platfoms.

smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)

@csarven ActivityPub is far from perfect to model these interactions, and in that modeling we likely create all kinds of utterly poor abstractions of the real world

But it is the creative process that matters. We have these imperfect social networking protocols for communication, and then all direct and indirect interactions between people are use cases of social networking that may be supported by these protocols. If not today, then maybe tomorrow as they evolve.

smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)

@jrp I hope they aren't and I hope that more and more people consider they aren't and will develop them in directions that make it clearer and clearer that indeed they aren't

I teased a bit in my toot. There's a kind of dogmatic focus on Microblogging++ as it were, which likely stems from the dominant position of the elephant(s) in the fedi ecosystem.