Notices by Gabriel Bauman (gabrielbauman@newwest.social)

@evan @TryshHQ @atomicpoet it basically belongs beside email. Your email address should be your fediverse handle.

I mean ActivityPub is basically a subset of SMTP and IMAP built on HTTP and JSON already, so…

@mekkaokereke @evan @markallerton @ks your argument is basically "I prefer a filtered view of reality, and I want someone else to define it." User safety is ill-defined.

I'm not calling you down for that. Many users want the same. But you should probably acknowledge that not everyone wants the same thing.

Top down moderation is not sustainable if we don't want to end up with Twitter again. We can and should make it easier for users to choose their view of the Fediverse.

@evan if the worst happens and we get significant fragmentation, maybe Jabber-style gateways can work. Hopefully that doesn't happen.

@evan Say they release tomorrow. Mastodon still trending, people still joining because now that's where their friends are if they're not on Twitter. The head start is real, and switching fatigue works in our favor.

Devs/enthusiasts will read and experiment with the new thing. Unlikely that the bulk of the Twitter diaspora will care. ActivityPub can ignore/embrace/extend concepts or be replaced itself if X is really so great.

@evan ActivityPub has a ton of momentum and adoption right now thanks to Mastodon, and I don't think a dev publishing a paper or a toy implementation threatens that. People should publish early and often.

It looks like the biggest adoption spoilers might to be federation wars over moderation policies, followed by inter-instance latency.

Basically, mods have to be made irrelevant; users must be empowered to set boundaries that work for them, are transparent to others, and are enforced broadly.