Kevin McCurley on Nostr: #[0] I tried to monitor it, but it doesn't seem to be accomplishing anything useful. ...
npub1u27r9h3j9pvrplaffsmpn698e8xhmuqhdgcxldv67ammql9pumnqha3qfq (npub1u27…3qfq) I tried to monitor it, but it doesn't seem to be accomplishing anything useful. The discussion on rights has basically run aground. I don't really care about this aspect - if I post on activitypub, I assume that I retain no rights whatsoever. Others seem to want to control who can do things (like preventing Meta from showing ads, or preventing google from indexing, or preventing quoting, etc).
I spent a couple of weeks trying to implement an ActivityPub server in python, but I gave up when I realized that different parts of the fediverse don't agree on what an Activity object is. That's why stuff gets posted on one site and then shows up in a mangled format on another site. It's like mime types for SMTP except the mime payloads aren't well defined by anyone.
To the extent that people want to assert control over ActivityPub, they don't seem to be engaging in any effective way.
I spent a couple of weeks trying to implement an ActivityPub server in python, but I gave up when I realized that different parts of the fediverse don't agree on what an Activity object is. That's why stuff gets posted on one site and then shows up in a mangled format on another site. It's like mime types for SMTP except the mime payloads aren't well defined by anyone.
To the extent that people want to assert control over ActivityPub, they don't seem to be engaging in any effective way.