interoperable protocols are arguably more important.
ActivityPub is a W3C specification at the Recommendation stage, which basically means it's ready for production.
This would allow groups like, oh, house.gov to run their own platform and assign every congress person their own interoperable user account (AOC@HOUSE.GOV for example) and it works pretty much the same way email works.
The problem is, companies know these and they subtly sabotage these standardization efforts.
Look at the web. Desktop UI toolkits have had solid components since the start. From the late 80s and early 90s. The web is maybe getting them universally in 2024.
I mean, it's great that we have standards, but can you really afford to wait 30-40 years? I'll be frank with you, if you're a professional in our field, 30-40 years is your entire career. Many people in IT actually retire even earlier or move up to management and basically out of regular IT, after 5-10-15 years.
And people can only care so much. Heck, many Open Source hackers move on after 5-10 years. Only a handful last 30 years.
Faster moving standards are a sort of utopia, it seems.
ActivityPub is a W3C specification at the Recommendation stage, which basically means it's ready for production.
This would allow groups like, oh, house.gov to run their own platform and assign every congress person their own interoperable user account (AOC@HOUSE.GOV for example) and it works pretty much the same way email works.