@raphael @silverpill @steve I also think that Steve's vision is realisable with ActivityPub API, although I think adding optional features like search, server push and so on makes it easier.
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Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.
Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.
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Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.
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Silverpill does not agree with us. I am wishing Silverpill well in their plan to rebuild with a completely different ground-up API. Silverpill is skilled and smart and very familiar with ActivityPub in great detail, so I'm sure they will come up with some interesting API architecture.
@raphael @silverpill @steve I don't intend to stop working on the ActivityPub API.
There are a lot of us collaborating through the SocialCG ActivityPub API Task Force, and I expect that collaboration to continue:
I can't wait to see what you build! Good luck.
@silverpill which people?
@silverpill oh, and have you met @Jeremiah ? He's an active participant in the ActivityPub community. A great person for you to meet!
Jeremiah, do you have any recommended links for someone interested in ActivityPub to learn more about ILF and WM?
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@phnt I didn't ask for your permission on how I reply.
It sounds like you get blocked a lot. Maybe you should think about why that is.
Good luck on the Fediverse!
@phnt so, for me, the social web is about choice. If you don't want to see creator content, you shouldn't have to.
I do think that the idea of someone deciding what content is or isn't allowed on the Fediverse is antithetical to that. If you don't want to follow @randahl or @taylorlorenz or whoever, don't.
But you also don't get to decide whether *I* follow them.
@phnt for sustainability, I don't think that moderation is the only pressure on instance operators, but it's one.
I don't know where you got the idea that SWF has talked about centralising moderation.
As for IFTAS, they are awesome. What's your beef with them? They do great work.
@silverpill hey, thanks for sharing the link!
Interledger Foundation is also a W3C member, and can join the Working Group directly. They don't need to make this grant to participate in ActivityPub standards.
The grant is for four subprojects:
1. Fediverse sustainability. What are the economic, psychological and emotional pressures on instance operators and other infrastructure providers? How can we support them?
2. Creator economy. What social, organizational, and technical infrastructure do content creators depend on? What are we missing on the Fediverse?
3. Cooperatives. social.coop, cosocial.ca and data.coop are all great examples of coops on the fediverse. Does this democratic and participative corporate structure provide an advantage for the Fediverse?
4. Web Monetization. Many Fediverse projects have implemented this API. We'll be identifying two more multimedia projects and helping them use the protocol.
@silverpill this is a restricted grant; we're being paid for the work being done. There's no quid pro quo, except that ILF and SWF both want the Social Web to grow and succeed.
@silverpill feel free to tag me next time if you'd like to talk about our work at SWF.