i don't really think ActivityPub is the protocol of the future. the fediverse remains too clunky and slow-moving, and there's still no on-ramp for normies.
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i don't really think ActivityPub is the protocol of the future. the fediverse remains too clunky and slow-moving, and there's still no on-ramp for normies.
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@peter I don't know enough to know if those are protocol problems or Mastodon problems but would love an ELI5 about the protocol problems.
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@owen I think @jenniferplusplus wrote a post about how difficult developing for ActivityPub is.
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@peter @owen
It's hard to succinctly capture what makes AP hard to develop, but this was an attempt.Letterbook - No universal translators
It turns out that federating is really hard. But, I managed it. Now I would love to have your help with everything that comes after that.
Jennifer++ (jenniferplusplus.com)
To answer the original question, I think mastodon made a lot of decisions that were worse than they needed to be, and that compound the more fundamental problems in the protocol.