It feels like activitypub is the true web 3.0 or at least the start of a road towards it?
but is it too tied to "social" web platforms as we have come to know and dislike? I mean its got explicitly hardwired the concepts of "followers" and "liking" and all the inanity that this has unleashed upon us. Now of course these are just "words" representing underlying software functionality but the mindset of designers and the constraints or blind spots they embed on software plays a huge role.
consider the possibility that a more democratic / federated model of a broken concept will not deliver us from the social media fiasco.
It's something I'm trying to understand too - what concepts does ActivityPub embody. My current version is "the general concept of someone posting some information that other people might be interested in, and the ability to get updates about it if you're interested". Fundamentally it's what "blog+RSS" gets you.
I haven't had a chance to go through the spec properly, but all of the other bits like liking, replies etc. seem to be more application specific.
but is it too tied to "social" web platforms as we have come to know and dislike? I mean its got explicitly hardwired the concepts of "followers" and "liking" and all the inanity that this has unleashed upon us. Now of course these are just "words" representing underlying software functionality but the mindset of designers and the constraints or blind spots they embed on software plays a huge role.
consider the possibility that a more democratic / federated model of a broken concept will not deliver us from the social media fiasco.