A lesson, perhaps, from #Cohost.
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Uh, unless we come up with a superceding protocol and everyone switches. Which would be awesome but I'm not betting on it.
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@noracodes I mean, it's happened before, RIP OStatus
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@jordan I know of running OStatus nodes Most Friendica servers support it, for instance.
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@noracodes "until human civilization no longer has access to network computing." please don't say this you're scaring me nora
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@ruby Doesn't have to be nuclear apocalypse, but it'll happen some day! We are a low-entropy phenomenon
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This is not to say that "the Fediverse" is better than Cohost. ActivityPub as a protocol is likely to survive forever; that doesn't mean your favorite content will always be available, let alone that ActivityPub-mediated spaces will always be enjoyable to be in.
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@noracodes ~~i sure hope activitypub doesn’t survive forever~~
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@noracodes i do think you’re overestimating the durability/persistence of things on the web a bit, tho. ActivityPub will persist for as long as human beings are alive who find it valuable to spend the time and energy needed to host and maintain an ActivityPub server. the falloff for that isn’t linear; in general, once a significant number of people decide that that is no longer worth it, most other people will decide that as well
could happen very quickly if, for example, it becomes illegal
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@u2764 That's a fair point, yeah.
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And there's a handful of Gnu Social nodes still around! It's just like XMPP: the "extinguish" in Mastodon's embrace / extend / extinguish of OStatus didn't actually completely extinguish the protocol or network.
That said, yeah, just as AP improved on OStatus, there are a lot of ways to improve on today's AP. Some of it may well happen via protocol improvements, but for more significant changes an alternate protocol might make more sense. Depending on how things play out it's easy to imagine AP at some point being where OStatus is today.
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