Re: Let's turn aspiration into fact?

34Min in Eugen talks about this :-

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2024/01/31/mastodon-with-eugen-rochko/

Issue here :-

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19902

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23522

Documentation here :-

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

Theres nothing like real world experience ;)

Aaron

On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 at 17:57, Johannes Ernst <johannes.ernst@gmail.com>
wrote:

> According to David Pierce at The Verge in a piece
> <https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol> published
> today, the Fediverse is:
>
> … an interconnected social platform ecosystem based on an open protocol
> called ActivityPub, which allows you to port your content, data, and
> follower graph between networks.
>
>
> He continues:
>
> If you wanted to leave one platform for another, you could bring all your
> content, all your followers, all your everything with you.
>
>
> This is aspirational compared to the state of implementation today, but a
> very reasonable aspiration IMHO. I would be prepared to argue that this
> aspiration — and a few other bit and pieces he isn’t mentioning — are
> essential to become real in order to deliver on the promise that people
> already think we are making. (Anecdotally I have found that many people
> believe this, not just David)
>
> What are our aspirations in SWICG here, specifically with respect to
> future standards work?
>
> It’s very important that we document what works today, I appreciate the
> people who are stepping up right now, and don’t want to distract from that.
>
> But once we have captured the present, where are we going? As a straw
> proposal, I propose that we adopt the two above sentences from today’s
> Verge piece as a vision, e.g. as “We develop the standards (and whatever
> else is necessary) that make easily possible … (see above)”.
>
> 1. Does this vision sound reasonable to you?
> 2. How can this very straw-y proposal be improved?
>
> P.S. Yes, I understand that we won’t (want to) squeeze Lemmy into
> Mastodon. So add the qualifier: within reason or such.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
>
> Johannes.
>
> Johannes Ernst
>
> Fediforum <https://fediforum.org/>
> Dazzle Labs <https://dazzlelabs.net/>
>
>
>
>

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Aaron Gray - @AaronNGray@fosstodon.org

Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher,
Information Theorist, and Computer Scientist.