Looking into this Summer of Protocols thing that @evan and @tomcoates got accepted for to work on adding encryption to #ActivityPub, and realized its a grant from the Ethereum Foundation.
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Looking into this Summer of Protocols thing that @evan and @tomcoates got accepted for to work on adding encryption to #ActivityPub, and realized its a grant from the Ethereum Foundation. I am not opposed to crypto slush money flowing into more useful projects like the #fediverse but thought it was interesting that I hadn't seen anyone mention this fact yet.
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@liaizon You’re 100% right that’s where the money comes from. What I find interesting about it is that if you look at the previous work from it almost none of it is even crypto adjacent. A lot of it is related to the subject of “protocol studies” that they’re trying to kick into being. There is work on Christopher Alexander’s pattern language in architecture, essays on metaphors for memory.
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@tomcoates yeah I looked through a bunch of it. It's a strange mix of things. I know quite a few people who have managed to get some money from the Ethereum Foundation for non Blockchain stuff. I do expect you will both get some pushback at some point about this though so maybe be prepared for that. There's many valid reasons to be suspicious or sceptical of anything touching crypto capital.
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@liaizon @tomcoates I am happy to take it and glad they are supporting our work. I think one thing we need to do is get them on the Fediverse.
