splinux on Nostr: I kind of like ActivityPub. As it's 30 years I am an early adopter of basically ...
I kind of like ActivityPub. As it's 30 years I am an early adopter of basically anything expresseable with Bytes, not only I think the federation is the way, but P2P like Direct Democracy does not scale if you understand complex systems.
It's good for basically transporting but not for creating communities. Like, p2p has low chances to make it outside niches for stuff involving human interaction IMO.
Europe, especially Italy and Greece, nailed the perfect social meeting point, the Piazza. Anything further from that metaphor will only create temporary hype train that will eventually die. Mall, bars, pubs die out. Piazza/square stay there for millenia. Federation creates the square, Mastodon is just a bar that will one day bust. But I can sense the force of deglobalization finally rising reclaiming humanity. Most people think it's a tech issue. It's a social one. One is not solving a tech issue but a social mechanisms to bring people together in a sustainable way. A way that father and mother can teach down to children. Not a freakshow crypto-capital-anarchists trying to convince everyone is one.
I have been right with ICQ, IRQ, Facebook, Jabber, Circle, QQ, (I was wrong with Twitter), Weibo, WeChatMoment. I might be wrong here, but the forces and the money are going to flow, institutionally and privately on the federating software. Also it has iterations, it has working group in W3C... There's a mastodontic effort in it by different stakeholder with different goals. It's the 3rd millennium social the same way Blockchain (no, not Bitcoin) are going to be the Partita Doppia of the 3rd century. Both federation and blockchain are older than the soon to die Mastodon and Bitcoin hypes.
It's good for basically transporting but not for creating communities. Like, p2p has low chances to make it outside niches for stuff involving human interaction IMO.
Europe, especially Italy and Greece, nailed the perfect social meeting point, the Piazza. Anything further from that metaphor will only create temporary hype train that will eventually die. Mall, bars, pubs die out. Piazza/square stay there for millenia. Federation creates the square, Mastodon is just a bar that will one day bust. But I can sense the force of deglobalization finally rising reclaiming humanity. Most people think it's a tech issue. It's a social one. One is not solving a tech issue but a social mechanisms to bring people together in a sustainable way. A way that father and mother can teach down to children. Not a freakshow crypto-capital-anarchists trying to convince everyone is one.
I have been right with ICQ, IRQ, Facebook, Jabber, Circle, QQ, (I was wrong with Twitter), Weibo, WeChatMoment. I might be wrong here, but the forces and the money are going to flow, institutionally and privately on the federating software. Also it has iterations, it has working group in W3C... There's a mastodontic effort in it by different stakeholder with different goals. It's the 3rd millennium social the same way Blockchain (no, not Bitcoin) are going to be the Partita Doppia of the 3rd century. Both federation and blockchain are older than the soon to die Mastodon and Bitcoin hypes.