Re: Let's turn aspiration into fact?

On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 at 00:48, Johannes Ernst <johannes.ernst@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?)
>

Gosh :)

Aaron


> 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>
> 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.
>
>
>

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Aaron Gray - @AaronNGray@fosstodon.org

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

Received on Friday, 9 February 2024 00:59:33 UTC