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The fact that anything of value that might have actually improved ostatus was unceremoniously dropped from AP before it was ratified is pretty much the ActivityPub experience.
It does nothing new, nothing better, but its popular with the in-group techbros, so it'll see adoption anyways.
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I used to laugh at the idea of techbros but you know, the funny thing of my experiences is the merit of the code mattered a whole lot more in the corporate setting than it does in the hobbyist scene, which is built on social credit as much as any actual ability to solve problems.
To make the joke XKCD made once, someone's probably solved P=NP, and it's in the calibration code of a blender.
To extend that joke, they've probably done it and no one will care unless they are in the in-group.
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I'm not just talking about me personally. We've watched people actively solving problems right here on the Fediverse like Takeshiteknji burn out because no one gave a shit and they weren't in the cool kids club.
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@maiyannah I suspect the technicalness of a subject matters. Social networks don't involve really difficult technical problems (90% of the existing problems seem to be getting people to agree on how to communicate) and are attractive to people who like to socialize. That should, if I'm right, lead to a form of self-selection that creates a different mix than with e.g. compiler projects.
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@verius I mostly agree, but some of the deeper federation problems are quite esoteric and I wasnt surprised they gone unsolved since they required domian specific knowledge, like the obscure php4 stuff
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