Reminding myself to check in on the fediforum in a week or so.
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Julian Fietkaureplied to Julian Fietkau last edited by
@hipsterelectron @seachanger @kristinHenry Bottom line, I think hoping for a "one true spec" that covers everything an ActivityPub server might do is not in the cards, not while people are coming up with new functionality all the time. If you want to get into the spec evolution process, I'd probably recommend getting in touch with @evan or the SocialWG in general. I'm a hobbyist with a toy ActivityPub server, I have no opinions on the direction of the spec or the quality of the process.
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Julian Fietkaureplied to d@nny "disc@" mcClanahan last edited by
@hipsterelectron @seachanger @kristinHenry It's a chicken-and-egg situation. Way back when Mastodon started, Eugen decided to come up with a custom API to go between web frontend and ActivityPub server because it would get done faster than implementing ActivityPub C2S (AFAIK). Then third-party clients started building on that API to be compatible with Mastodon. Then other servers reimplemented it to be compatible with the clients. Now, moving to AP C2S would be a whole-ecosystem paradigm shift.
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Julian Fietkaureplied to Kristin (vis.social Admin) last edited by
@kristinHenry @hipsterelectron @seachanger @Gargron I think what makes it difficult to move this conversation forward is that there are no simple solutions for this problem, or we'd already have them. On the bright side, relevant work is going on in many different places:
* Mastodon 4.3's improved notification filters are in part a reaction to this problem
* @iftas working on a dependable framework for server block coordination: https://connect.iftas.org/library/iftas-documentation/fedicheck/(1/2)
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Julian Fietkaureplied to Julian Fietkau last edited by
@kristinHenry @hipsterelectron @seachanger @Gargron
* @thisismissem working on intra- and inter-server moderation tools: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/113075865207943094
* Fediseer as a tool for instance reputation management - https://fediseer.comCommercial social networks have trained us into a sort of "yell at the air and hope the corpo listens" approach to effecting change, but many of these efforts can be supported through advocacy, volunteer work, or donations, for those in a position to be able to.
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Julian Fietkaureplied to Julian Fietkau last edited by
@kristinHenry @hipsterelectron @seachanger @Gargron @thisismissem Actually I want to expand on that last sentence, so (3/2) I guess:
I am speaking from a very privileged position as someone who (a) has never been harrassed and (b) has spare income to donate. As usual, the people with the most power in the system are the least affected by its problems. That's what I mean by "in a position to": the responsibility is decentralized just like everything else, and we need to take care of one another.