- From: Bob Wyman <bob@wyman.us>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2023 13:00:07 -0500
- To: nightpool <nightpool@cybre.space>
- Cc: public-swicg@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAA1s49X1KxrZ-g2bsnj36KHDep9_1zKR4q=FT36WWnb0i4Y7wQ@mail.gmail.com>
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 >> >>
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