Jupiter Rowland on Nostr: @Johannes Ernst Maybe Mastodon could come back to W3C and help re-energize? I ...
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Maybe Mastodon could come back to W3C and help re-energize?
I sincerely hope not.
The last thing the Fediverse needs is Mastodon assuming control over all other projects by officially assuming direct control over the official ActivityPub standard. For example, Mastodon could dictate other projects to remove features that Mastodon doesn't have and thus kill all incentives to use these alternatives by having the ActivityPub standard re-written in such a way that everything that Mastodon doesn't do becomes "non-standard".
On the other hand, Mastodon isn't even interested in being standard-compliant. Mastodon can use its deliberate, intentional incompatibilities to everything else to make everything else look bad in comparison. And it actually works. People flock back from places like Akkoma, Friendica and the Forkeys because they aren't enough "like Mastodon". Sabotaging connections between Mastodon and the non-Mastodon Fediverse adds to this.
Don't forget that the Fediverse didn't start with Mastodon, and Rochko invented neither the Fediverse nor ActivityPub. The term "Fediverse" itself is four years older than Mastodon.
If Eugen Rochko and Mastodon shall have a saying in the development of the W3C standard, then Mike Macgirvin, experienced protocol designer and creator of the DFRN, Zot and Nomad protocols as well as their respective projects, shall have just as much of a saying without his suggestions being constantly blocked out of principle.
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Maybe Mastodon could come back to W3C and help re-energize?
I sincerely hope not.
The last thing the Fediverse needs is Mastodon assuming control over all other projects by officially assuming direct control over the official ActivityPub standard. For example, Mastodon could dictate other projects to remove features that Mastodon doesn't have and thus kill all incentives to use these alternatives by having the ActivityPub standard re-written in such a way that everything that Mastodon doesn't do becomes "non-standard".
On the other hand, Mastodon isn't even interested in being standard-compliant. Mastodon can use its deliberate, intentional incompatibilities to everything else to make everything else look bad in comparison. And it actually works. People flock back from places like Akkoma, Friendica and the Forkeys because they aren't enough "like Mastodon". Sabotaging connections between Mastodon and the non-Mastodon Fediverse adds to this.
Don't forget that the Fediverse didn't start with Mastodon, and Rochko invented neither the Fediverse nor ActivityPub. The term "Fediverse" itself is four years older than Mastodon.
If Eugen Rochko and Mastodon shall have a saying in the development of the W3C standard, then Mike Macgirvin, experienced protocol designer and creator of the DFRN, Zot and Nomad protocols as well as their respective projects, shall have just as much of a saying without his suggestions being constantly blocked out of principle.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Mastodon #W3C