- From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 20:55:43 -0500
- To: Kim Hamilton Duffy <kim@learningmachine.com>
- Cc: public-credentials@w3.org
Kim Hamilton Duffy writes: > This sounds great Christopher. Yes, this coming meeting is full, but we > should be able to discuss this Tuesday September 5. Sounds good to me. I asked them (it's late there) but haven't heard yet from Eugen about whether they can come yet but hopefully they can. > I'd like to see an overview and your thoughts on how Credentials CG can be > involved. There looks like a lot of interesting overlap between the > concepts you outlined in your RWoT paper and CCG efforts; it would be great > to hear more. And certainly, Eugen's involvement in the meeting would be > appreciated. Glad to hear you think there's so much alignment... I feel likewise :) > Thanks, > Kim > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 9:35 AM Christopher Allan Webber < > cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> So as many of you know, I work on a specification called ActivityPub >> outside of this group, which provides a linked data foundation for >> decentralized social networks (think decentralized alternatives to >> Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc). My work on ActivityPub is >> in general separate from this group, but the needs of ActivityPub >> systems did *personally* drive my interest to this group. >> >> I wrote a paper on how I think the work of ActivityPub aligns with this >> group for RWoT: >> >> https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/activitypub-decentralized-distributed.md >> >> (or if you like dead tree versions, a slightly more nicely rendered PDF:) >> >> https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/talks/blob/master/activitypub/rwot/even_more_distributed_activitypub.pdf >> >> When I wrote the paper earlier in the week, ActivityPub's relationship >> was still somewhat theoretical. I'm happy to say that as of this week >> we're starting to see practical application of this group's work. >> >> Mastodon is a decentralized social network which will begin rolling out >> the start of ActivityPub support to its users in its upcoming release. >> This is big news since Mastodon has somewhere between half a million and >> a million registered users at the time of writing. >> >> As of this week, Mastodon began implementing Linked Data Signatures >> support: >> >> https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/4687 >> >> So that means we're already seeing movement on: >> >> https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/activitypub-decentralized-distributed.md#signing-objects >> >> Would this be a good topic to talk about on an upcoming call? It looks >> like this week's agenda is already very full. Maybe next week's? And >> maybe we could get on Eugen Rochko (Mastodon's lead developer) to speak? >> >> - Chris >> >> PS: If you haven't tried Mastodon I highly recommend to it; consider >> subscribing to me, I'm https://octodon.social/@cwebber ... you can >> subscribe by typing that address into the search bar. >> >> -- > Kim Hamilton Duffy > Principal Engineer | Learning Machine + MIT Media Lab > Co-chair W3C Credentials Community Group > 400 Main Street Building E19-732, Cambridge, MA 02139 > 12001 N. Central Expy, Suite 1025, Dallas, TX 75243 > > kim@learningmachine.com | kimhd@mit.edu > 425-652-0150 | LearningMachine.com
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