Notices by Paul McBride (thepaulmcbride@indieweb.social)

@tchambers @stevestreza I’m hopeful in a few years we’ll see something useful being built with @servo

If you're interested in the #fediverse and #ActivityPub then I suspect you'll want to hear about Solid (https://solidproject.org/)

It's the project Sir Tim Berners-Lee is working on. You might know him as the creator of the World Wide Web.

Solid is a project that hopes to separate user data from the app that uses it.

A person would store their data in a "pod" and give/revoke access to that data to/from the app.

This means user/account data is very portable! More so even than Mastodon.

@evan is this something that you're aware of? Seems relevant to your work.

My excitement for Mastodon isn't really for Mastodon, its for #ActivityPub and the #OpenWeb.

The web is a tool for human connection that has been hi-jacked by corporations. We've traded our attention for convenience and it feels like the pendulum is starting to swing the other way.

This is great news! The one caveat is that Tumblr will soon be the largest member of the fediverse by a huge margin. They need to be a member, not the owner.

#ActivityPub is vulnerable to the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish manoeuvre that big tech companies are fond off. Let’s hope the play nice but let’s prepare for if they don’t.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/