It makes me sad that some #fediverse and #activitypub

[erlend@writing.exchange]

It makes me sad that some #fediverse and #activitypub
advocates don’t believe a pluriverse of social web protocols is possible;

that’s literally all the web has ever been. Additive, composable stacks.

It was never that *one* protocol. It’s the mixing and matching of multiple protocols - like http+html ad infinitum - that makes the World Wide Web so resilient.

Plurality is the web’s superpower; the more you fight it the more the pluralists will route around you instead of with and through you.

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@erlend Hmmm, this is a bit weak. There is only one Internet Protocol (that matters), and we're all (arguably) better for that. The rag-bag of technologies needed to get information to display on a web browser is more a hindrance than a help.

The world progresses by expansion and contraction. Expansion is the push to new territory, contraction the refinement and survival-of-the-fittest. Ultimately everything on this planet is... organic, including, and especially, progress.