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Q: Is anyone actually finding the activitypub experimental feature I've been working on (for those running main) _actually_ useful? π€ (because I'm not and having second thoughts...)
Q: Is anyone actually finding the activitypub experimental feature I've been working on (for those running main) _actually_ useful? π€ (because I'm not and having second thoughts...)
Q: Is anyone actually finding the activitypub experimental feature I've been working on (for those running main) _actually_ useful? π€ (because I'm not and having second thoughts...)
@prologic I like it, I get to follow some people I could not follow before, which I find useful.
But if you have second thoughts about it all - then I can understand that.
If you decide to pull the plug on it - then I'll just get some additional activitypub service installed on my server and use that for that (I was thinking about installing this: https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub ) if needed.
@stigatle Yeah one of the things that worries me (aside from the very real spam problem that can and probably will occur) is the utility beyond following someone. I dunno maybe it's just me? I follow a few folks (or try to) in the "fediverse" space but it seems rather one-sided π€ -- maybe there's still bugs? π
@stigatle Yeah one of the things that worries me (aside from the very real spam problem that can and probably will occur) is the utility beyond following someone. I dunno maybe it's just me? I follow a few folks (or try to) in the "fediverse" space but it seems rather one-sided π€ -- maybe there's still bugs? π
@stigatle Yeah one of the things that worries me (aside from the very real spam problem that can and probably will occur) is the utility beyond following someone. I dunno maybe it's just me? I follow a few folks (or try to) in the "fediverse" space but it seems rather one-sided π€ -- maybe there's still bugs? π
I guess what I'm trying to say is, it isn't very interesting (for me at least) to "follow" people where "conversations" are just one sided π€¦ββοΈ it makes interesting discourse basically impossible and you end up just being an outside observer. Hmmm π€ -- Maybe Mastodon/Fedvierse is so big that even if we truly integrate, fix all the bugs, improve the hell out of the UX, that nobody will give a shitβ’ ? π€£
I guess what I'm trying to say is, it isn't very interesting (for me at least) to "follow" people where "conversations" are just one sided π€¦ββοΈ it makes interesting discourse basically impossible and you end up just being an outside observer. Hmmm π€ -- Maybe Mastodon/Fedvierse is so big that even if we truly integrate, fix all the bugs, improve the hell out of the UX, that nobody will give a shitβ’ ? π€£
I guess what I'm trying to say is, it isn't very interesting (for me at least) to "follow" people where "conversations" are just one sided π€¦ββοΈ it makes interesting discourse basically impossible and you end up just being an outside observer. Hmmm π€ -- Maybe Mastodon/Fedvierse is so big that even if we truly integrate, fix all the bugs, improve the hell out of the UX, that nobody will give a shitβ’ ? π€£
@prologic Yeah, it would be nice to actually follow the conversations that goes on, that would indeed make it feel more useful.
@prologic I have to admit, I'm very confused by what's been going on with ActivityPub.
Everyone's always had the option of following a mastodon user because every mastodon account exposes an RSS feed. So if unidirectional follows were the desired feature, that already exists, right?
ActivityPub the protocol allows for two-way communication. There's an impedance mismatch between how yarn works and how ActivityPub works, but it's always been possible to bridge the two, following what the IndieWeb <-> ActivityPub bridges already do.
So, like, what exactly is the purpose of the ActivityPub work being done on yarn? What's it supposed to support? If it's just for unidirectional following, why not use feeds/RSS and call it done? If it's meant to be bidirectional, why not pursue build a bridge and borrowing from what the IndieWeb folks have already done?
@prologic I have to admit, I'm very confused by what's been going on with ActivityPub.
Everyone's always had the option of following a mastodon user because every mastodon account exposes an RSS feed. So if unidirectional follows were the desired feature, that already exists, right?
ActivityPub the protocol allows for two-way communication. There's an impedance mismatch between how yarn works and how ActivityPub works, but it's always been possible to bridge the two, following what the IndieWeb <-> ActivityPub bridges already do.
So, like, what exactly is the purpose of the ActivityPub work being done on yarn? What's it supposed to support? If it's just for unidirectional following, why not use feeds/RSS and call it done? If it's meant to be bidirectional, why not pursue building a bridge and borrowing from what the IndieWeb folks have already done?