@antichrist_hater @tost @amd64sucks >an entity that is an expert in the topic
who decides on that? is Eugen the expert, or is it Lain Pleroma:tm: or is it syuilo or is it the people who worked on ActivityPub or is it... etc etc
what's the point in that? what problem does it actually solve? has Google working on XMPP solved XMPP? (as far as I'm aware, not really, and same with Mozilla/New Vector/etc and Matrix)

>at some point you won't be able to check 20 different projects and how each of them do it
if someone wants to fix issues with federation between two pieces of software, they'll do it, that's what people do and how it all works (and also, that's still what we do, we do check many different projects when debugging issues we encounter, which is the reality of things with a "standard" or "no standard" anyway)

>and by having a serious entity taking care of a standard you avoid carrying bad design just because someone wasnt very bright at one point in time and everybody just adapted
it doesn't sound like you have too much software dev experience if you're saying that... in fact, that happens the most with standards or when only a very limited amount of software define a standard (see Matrix and Synapse, for example, but they were telecom experts designing it after all, right?)

>for the fediverse to ever be bigger and more serious than what it is now
you probably want soapbox then, because i don't believe that's what the network is about. i'm not interested in corpo stuff, i'm interested in human relationships and having real links and real, thoughtful communication with people, while having fun here. i don't believe everyone has its place here or needs to be here, either

>by having a standard you can change things substantially to fix past errors
a huge chunk of Mastodon and Pleroma instances run 2+ years old versions, this is not the reality of things and this is not how standards work either, really, we still use HTTP/1.1 even though HTTP/3 over QUIC is out there after all