- From: Johannes Ernst <johannes.ernst@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 16:48:20 -0800
- To: Social Web Incubator Community Group <public-swicg@w3.org>
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Note all I meant to start a conversation about a vision of what we want to accomplish … thanks for all the responses, many of which are very interesting, but basically none respond to the vision part! The basic question is: what do we want the world look like once we are done here? (If we ever are. Short of that, what’s the vision on a 3-to-5-year horizon?) Cheers, Johannes. > On Feb 8, 2024, at 13:28, Aaron Gray <aaronngray@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 <mailto: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/> >> >> >> > > > -- > Aaron Gray - @AaronNGray@fosstodon.org <> > > Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, Information Theorist, and Computer Scientist. >
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