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   tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 01:46:55 JST tech? no! man, see...

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   • Christine Lemmer-Webber

   @cwebber the bit about "the next big challenge is how to accommodate Nike and Starbucks as they flee Twitter" was a Big Yikes from me, but the rest of the article was pretty solid

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 01:46:57 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     Okay, here's some more comments. By the time David and I spoke, most of the people interviewed for the piece seemed very optimistic that we did it, we're in The Future, ActivityPub made it and this is it, this is our moment! Apparently I was a refreshing change of pace by *not* delivering only that attitude. There's reasons for celebration of this moment and also caution and also a sense that things are not done and I'm glad the post carried those forward. In other words, the moment we're in deserves a *lot* of emotions, and I think the piece reflects them.

     A lot of what I spent time on in the interview, and it was a few hours and a lot was cut out, was about the history of the fediverse as it came to be and the challenges I perceive the fediverse, as it stands today, as likely to hit, and thus how we're positioning our research within the Spritely Institute.

     As usual, most of the things you say gets cut. But I'm happy with the parts that made it in.

     I'm also happy with this moment, that all that work was very much so not going to waste. But I am looking forward with where decentralized networks have yet to go, and I'm even more optimistic about that.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 01:46:58 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

     The Verge has a new article about ActivityPub. And it's pretty damn good: https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network

     There's a number of quotes from me in there. I enjoyed being interviewed for this: David Pierce was a very thoughtful interviewer.

     I have more comments than that, but I'll put them in a followup in this thread. In the meanwhile, go read the piece. It's nice to read some well informed journalism.

     Fediverse Report repeated this.
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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 01:51:59 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber
     • David Pierce

     @cwebber I agree! I had a great call with @pierce .

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 01:52:06 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • Jonathan T

     @JonnyT @cwebber I agree with this but it's definitely not the way it came across in the article

     remember when HTHR bullied Denny's off dot social? that was one for the history books

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     Jonathan T (jonnyt@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 01:52:07 JST Jonathan T

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @technomancy @cwebber It shouldn’t be. They will get accommodated here in the exact same way Gab was. That is, they’ll exist but most people will never see anything from them (unless what they do here is, slightly improbably, actually useful or interesting).

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 02:01:09 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • Jonathan T

     @JonnyT this is actually such ancient history it even predates Activitypub on masto: https://mastodon.social/@HTHR/140278

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     Jonathan T (jonnyt@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 02:01:10 JST Jonathan T

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @technomancy @cwebber The article was good but, ironically for me, it was the bits about the ‘old ways of doing things’ that I thought were the worst about it (e.g. the bit about moderation was laughable, given how crap all the major social media platforms have always been and continue to be at that).

     Unaware of the Denny’s incident but I’m a relative newbie here (joined last November). Also, HTHR?