Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
You may hear that this or that protocol has an incremental feature advantage over ActivityPub. Sometimes this is true; often it's just misunderstanding of how AP works.
But incremental features don't win. We have a structural advantage over any other protocol. ActivityPub is a formal standard, backed by one of the most respected organizations on the planet. It has hundreds of implementers, tens of thousands of instances, and millions of people on the network. Diversity is our strength.
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
ActivityPub is extensible. We can add new features, and we can do it in a decentralized way. That minor feature gap you may hear about in the FUD of advocates for other networks will soon be closed, and then we will exceed it. There are so many of us doing the work.
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
And our social structure and governance processes are constantly in development. New foundations, new ways of interacting, new ways of organizing are constantly in development. This is a *social* network, and the social part has as much innovation and development as the technical part.
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
I feel sorry for the people wasting their own and others' time and money on networks that aren't the Fediverse.
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
Greatest network in the world.
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
@cypherhippie the core idea is that people on different social networks can follow each other.
Yes, it's ok that the final standard remains final. That's how standards work. We track errata for errors in the text, and there is a tonne of documentation provided by the W3C and others.
Paul Fuxjaeger
@evan what’s the ‘core idea’ that underpinned the development of AP (say up until W3C TR 2018) from your point of view?
Is it OK that the spec hasn’t been updated since?
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
@cypherhippie network effects are real. That's all. It's not magic. More users, more implementers and more servers begets more users, more implementers and more servers.
Paul Fuxjaeger
@evan thanks.
I would like to believe in the ‘structural’ advantage. Yet currently, I still feel a bit sceptic towards this claim.
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