The Fediverse is Quiet — Let's Fix That! (Slides + Recording)

julian

For those who were unable to attend this past weekend's Social Web After Hours event held at HackerSpace Brussels (@[email protected]), I've uploaded a re-recording of my presentation, which you can check out here! Sadly, there was no live recording of the rather lively session, so you'll just have to take my word for it

The Fediverse is Quiet — Let's Fix That!

There are a number of "hard problems" facing ActivityPub development today. One of which is the oft-repeated refrain that "the fediverse is quiet". This is most often experienced when any given con...

Spectra Video (spectra.video)

If you're looking for just the slides, you can get them here as well

Slides (PDF warning)

Thank you @[email protected] for the PeerTube instance!

Andy Piper

@julian @HSBXL @deadsuperhero thanks for doing this! I’ll try to do a recording of my talk later as well. The room vibes throughout the evening were great

wakest ⁂

@julian @HSBXL @deadsuperhero really glad to see you upload these. Wanted to share them with some folks

Unrelated here's a quick bug report: seems like @phanpy is picking up some unsupported attachment on your post

Sean Tilley

@[email protected] @[email protected] Seeing the same thing in Akkoma, not sure what it is.

DeeAnn Little

@julian it was a great talk! I'm glad you re-recorded it.

@deadsuperhero @liaizon it looks like the same issue is showing up using Elk (via browser/desktop). The best I can tell is that it's a wonky preview attempt of the pdf link.

silverpill

@julian

>Contexts can provide a thorough, comprehensive way to backfill an entire conversation. This is the biggest step we can take towards tackling the “fediverse is quiet” problem.

Sure, context is useful for backfilling, but is it the biggest step? I don't think so.

With FEP-1b12 or Containers, conversations are synced by default, so there is no need for backfilling. This is more efficient too: you don't need to retrieve context periodically to get an up-to-date view.

julian

@[email protected] when discussed with Nutomic about this, I made the case that 1b12 is excellent for synchronization. 7888 (and 171b, etc.) are good for backfill, in cases where there is no 1b12 implementation available.

That is, 171b/1b12 will ensure you're up to date once you start following, but everything before that is still unavailable. The context collection provides a tidy way to backfill well, in my opinion.

silverpill

@julian FEP-171b has its own way to backfill, also via context, but it is a collection of activities (such as Create).
I am currently trying to figure out how to make Containers compatible with NodeBB and others.