Re: Is there anyone here from major ActivityPub implementations? (Mastodon, Pleroma, etc?)

You wrote:

> "SWICG has never served as a proper "implementor's forum" that would allow
> mature, well-established implementations to evolve the fediverse in a
> matter grounded in practical, real-world implementation and UX concerns."


Should SWICG be an "implementor's forum?" It seems to me that it would be
useful to have such a forum. Am I missing something?

What subjects are better discussed here than in other contexts that
currently exist?

bob wyman


On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 11:43 AM nightpool <nightpool@cybre.space> wrote:

> SWICG has never served as a proper "implementor's forum" that would allow
> mature, well-established implementations to evolve the fediverse in a
> matter grounded in practical, real-world implementation and UX concerns. I
> think this has been its major failure as a standards body. However, I can
> say that I at least keep tabs on it for Mastodon's team, and Claire has
> been involved as well. Dansup is probably theoretically around here
> somewhere for Pixelfed as well, although his extensions don't really tend
> to overlap with ours much. My understanding is that both Pleroma devs have
> effectively abandoned the project, but when it was active we saw them once
> in a while. I don't know about the Akkoma or Misskey devs, I haven't had
> any communications with them personally.
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 10:41 AM Bob Wyman <bob@wyman.us> wrote:
>
>> In looking over the list of particpants, I couldn't find any indication
>> that the current major users of previous W3C social standards, such as
>> ActivityPub, are represented in this group. It may be that I simply don't
>> recognize all the names on the list. But, it seems to me that if the
>> incumbent implementors of the W3C Social Web standards aren't here, then an
>> effort should be made to recruit them. It will be difficult to discuss
>> making changes or extensions without input from those who currently depend
>> on these standards.
>>
>> If you are representing, in some form or another, an existing
>> implementation of ActivityPub, etc. I'd appreciate it if you indicated that.
>>
>> bob wyman
>>
>>