@andstatus At the present time there is no alternative which can possibly unite the free web. The only way I can see to move forward is for projects to support multiple protocols into the foreseeable future.
There are some interesting developments in the works. Unlike ActivityPub, I believe that discussing any alternatives before there are solid specifications and tested implementations would be foolish.
I will note that the basis for ActivityPub is ActivityStreams2, which is a well designed and extensible specification. It is however merely a serialisation and not a transfer protocol. If you paired ActivityStreams2 with a solid transport protocol you would have something useful. So supporting ActivityStreams2 is still a good idea. Unfortunately, ActivityPub frequently confuses data and transport and puts a lot of additional constraints on the data which aren't present in AS2. Keeping the AP data restrictions separated from the lower AS2 data layer so that the transport layer can be cleanly replaced is a bit of a challenge.
@clacke @alda Laconica/Identica/Pumpio has ever been a thing? I read somewhere that it's like 20k users. Now it doesn't seem to even properly work. Diaspora is said to have 1 or 2 M users (?). It'd be great there was a protocol to speak each other, though, and money to support the implementation.
@luisy Me parece que carga demasiado las tintas (incluso parece que lo hace por gusto). Da por supuestas demasiadas cosas... Y el "balance económico" lo hace solo a medias (si te pones a ello no solo hay que descontar lo que se dejaría de "ingresar", sino también lo que se dejaría de "gastar" --entrecomillo porque es economía social, no un balance empresarial--).
The #Librem5 campaign has crossed $1,000,000 out grossing the combined totals of the Librem 15, 13 & 11 campaigns combined!! Amazing support from so many! Thank you.