h
The way I see it, ActivityPub is the decentralised method we're paving the way for the distributed web.
People are educating themselves and with the fediverse having surpassed critical mass beyond the 1 million-user mark, it's now practically unstoppable.
In about a year from now we'll be seeing the beginning of the convergence between the decentralised-web, with the distributed-whatever that goes next.
It's not that those technologies are immature. It's that they haven't converged yet.
Mayel - ghost account
@h I agree.
Mayel - ghost account
@h I'm also interested to see how we can extend ActivityPub (or at least some of its underlying methods like ActivityStreams) to the distributed internet, to allow interoperability between the web and distributed platforms, and between users of different platforms.
h
@mayel Part of the hypercoop work is an abstraction layer to make AP interop with IPFS. Studying SSB, GNUNet, and DAT trying to generalise that. I think there are enough commonalities to at least give it a try.
I made an early attempt last year trying to do that for the old Mastodon protocol and IPFS, but it soon became evident that wasn't the way to go, standing on shifting sands.
h
@mayel So the goal for much of 2018 is trying to arrive to a situation where I can say: "Okay, this is not awesome, but this design will be good enough to get started if all these networks can send messages and content to each other."
It will probably extend into 2019, and 2019 will be the year when we begin to see some actual convergent implementations.
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