{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@jasonekratz",
        "url": "https://social.lol/@jasonekratz",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.lol/@jasonekratz/111229330258060563",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I'm not convinced on the idea of POSSE, at least for stuff like this little micro post. I get it for other stuff but, to me, this (ie: Mastodon, Twitter, etc.) should be ephemeral. Realize not everyone agrees on this. I'm good with that. </p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/posse\">#<span>posse</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I'm not convinced on the idea of POSSE, at least for stuff like this little micro post. I get it for other stuff but, to me, this (ie: Mastodon, Twitter, etc.) should be ephemeral. Realize not everyone agrees on this. I'm good with that. #indieweb #posse #blogging"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-13T19:21:27+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39169303",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@cybeardjm",
        "url": "https://masto.ai/@cybeardjm",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://masto.ai/@cybeardjm/111228934134648997",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>My WordPress debugging - Thinking out loud...</p><p>I have 2 <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/WordPress\">#<span>WordPress</span></a> blogs on subdomains WWW &amp; AMF (see profile) almost identical in structure (95%).<br />Been testing a lot around <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/ActivityPub\">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> and <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a>: new plugins, new interactions... And:<br />- AMF runs smoothly.<br />- WWW (older) has a few hiccups...</p><p>Been trying to test/debug/troubleshoot for some time now, removing all plugins etc.<br />Had to change theme (from 2020 to 2023) and that solved a few things (AMF uses 2020, WWW is now on 2023).</p><p>1/n</p>",
        "text": "My WordPress debugging - Thinking out loud...I have 2 #WordPress blogs on subdomains WWW & AMF (see profile) almost identical in structure (95%).\nBeen testing a lot around #ActivityPub and #IndieWeb: new plugins, new interactions... And:\n- AMF runs smoothly.\n- WWW (older) has a few hiccups...Been trying to test/debug/troubleshoot for some time now, removing all plugins etc.\nHad to change theme (from 2020 to 2023) and that solved a few things (AMF uses 2020, WWW is now on 2023).1/n"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-13T17:40:43+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39168781",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@abnv",
        "url": "https://fantastic.earth/@abnv",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/111228506763681076",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/Wordpress\">#<span>Wordpress</span></a> is joining the <a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/Fediverse\">#<span>Fediverse</span></a>, making it possible for people to follow Wordpress blogs right from your Fediverse accounts. But what if you have static-site generator based <a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a>? Use the excellent (and free) Bridgy Fed service <a href=\"https://fed.brid.gy\"><span>https://</span><span>fed.brid.gy</span><span></span></a> by <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://indieweb.social/@snarfed\">@<span>snarfed</span></a></span>! For example, you can follow my blog at @abhinavsarkar.net@abhinavsarkar.net, made available on fediverse using Bridgy Fed. <a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "#Wordpress is joining the #Fediverse, making it possible for people to follow Wordpress blogs right from your Fediverse accounts. But what if you have static-site generator based #blog? Use the excellent (and free) Bridgy Fed service https://fed.brid.gy by @snarfed! For example, you can follow my blog at @abhinavsarkar.net@abhinavsarkar.net, made available on fediverse using Bridgy Fed. #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-13T15:52:02+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39167582",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@hamatti",
        "url": "https://mastodon.world/@hamatti",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.world/@hamatti/111226863544569997",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Last summer I did a complete rewrite of my website* and one thing I really like about it is I can now write blog posts and build them into a GitHub PR way in advance and then I can publish them from my phone by merging the PR.</p><p>* I wrote about it here  <a href=\"https://hamatti.org/posts/website-rewrite-and-switching-to-notion-as-cms/\"><span>https://</span><span>hamatti.org/posts/website-rewr</span><span>ite-and-switching-to-notion-as-cms/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/Eleventy\">#<span>Eleventy</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/11ty\">#<span>11ty</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/staticsites\">#<span>staticsites</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Last summer I did a complete rewrite of my website* and one thing I really like about it is I can now write blog posts and build them into a GitHub PR way in advance and then I can publish them from my phone by merging the PR.* I wrote about it here  https://hamatti.org/posts/website-rewrite-and-switching-to-notion-as-cms/#blogging #IndieWeb #Eleventy #11ty #staticsites"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-13T08:54:08+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39164631",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@flamed",
        "url": "https://social.lol/@flamed",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.lol/@flamed/111226540934736756",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>How do you even read/listen to DRM-free audiobooks? <a href=\"https://flamedfury.com/posts/drm-free-audiobooks/\"><span>https://</span><span>flamedfury.com/posts/drm-free-</span><span>audiobooks/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/audiobooks\">#<span>audiobooks</span></a>  <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a></p>",
        "text": "How do you even read/listen to DRM-free audiobooks? https://flamedfury.com/posts/drm-free-audiobooks/#indieweb #audiobooks  #blogging"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-13T07:32:06+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39163985",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@janboddez",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@janboddez",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@janboddez/111223876579273446",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>It\u2019s fun doing \u201creposts\u201d from your actual site.</p><p>Had to still manually add a Repost block, though, and tweak\u2014as in: clear\u2014the remote page\u2019s title. Takes \u2026 more than a click.</p><p><a href=\"https://jan.boddez.net/notes/004a3bd657\"><span>https://</span><span>jan.boddez.net/notes/004a3bd65</span><span>7</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/IndieBlocks\">#<span>IndieBlocks</span></a></p><p>Looks okay on the blog, great in my feed reader, and pretty cool on Mastodon, too.</p><p>And parsed <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/microformats\">#<span>microformats</span></a> look correct: <a href=\"https://xray.p3k.io/parse?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjan.boddez.net%2Fnotes%2F004a3bd657&amp;pretty=true\"><span>https://</span><span>xray.p3k.io/parse?url=https%3A</span><span>%2F%2Fjan.boddez.net%2Fnotes%2F004a3bd657&amp;pretty=true</span></a></p><p>The trick is nesting the `.e-content` inside the `.h-cite.u-repost-of`.</p><p>I use <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/gutenberg\">#<span>gutenberg</span></a>\u2019s `InnerBlocks` to do so. <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/WordPress\">#<span>WordPress</span></a></p>",
        "text": "It\u2019s fun doing \u201creposts\u201d from your actual site.Had to still manually add a Repost block, though, and tweak\u2014as in: clear\u2014the remote page\u2019s title. Takes \u2026 more than a click.https://jan.boddez.net/notes/004a3bd657#IndieWeb #IndieBlocksLooks okay on the blog, great in my feed reader, and pretty cool on Mastodon, too.And parsed #microformats look correct: https://xray.p3k.io/parse?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjan.boddez.net%2Fnotes%2F004a3bd657&pretty=trueThe trick is nesting the `.e-content` inside the `.h-cite.u-repost-of`.I use #gutenberg\u2019s `InnerBlocks` to do so. #WordPress"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-12T20:14:31+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39161022",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@devils",
        "url": "https://denden.world/@devils",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://denden.world/@devils/111222705526754310",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Toying with the idea of having my website layout based on text art. The base will be actual text in a pre tag, and then the actual contents of the page would be in an iframe. Thoughts?</p><p><a href=\"https://denden.world/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://denden.world/tags/WebDev\">#<span>WebDev</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Toying with the idea of having my website layout based on text art. The base will be actual text in a pre tag, and then the actual contents of the page would be in an iframe. Thoughts?#IndieWeb #WebDev"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-12T15:16:42+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39158151",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@stefan",
        "url": "https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/111222633032531742",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\"Open source, community-owned software [...] offers a remedy to the deep rooted issues of opaqueness and stakeholder imbalance in closed-source software, but it is not innately cozy. That is an added quality resulting from an intentional design towards that specific end.\"</p><p><a href=\"https://blog.erlend.sh/cozy-community-software\"><span>https://</span><span>blog.erlend.sh/cozy-community-</span><span>software</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet\">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/OpenWeb\">#<span>OpenWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/CozyWeb\">#<span>CozyWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/CozySoftware\">#<span>CozySoftware</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\"Open source, community-owned software [...] offers a remedy to the deep rooted issues of opaqueness and stakeholder imbalance in closed-source software, but it is not innately cozy. That is an added quality resulting from an intentional design towards that specific end.\"https://blog.erlend.sh/cozy-community-software#internet #web #IndieWeb #OpenWeb #CozyWeb #CozySoftware"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-12T14:58:16+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39158152",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@s3thi",
        "url": "https://fantastic.earth/@s3thi",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://fantastic.earth/@s3thi/111222401026683172",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>i follow a ton of blogs via my RSS reader, but i noticed that most of those blogs are written by (a) men and (b) from Western countries, mostly the US and UK.</p><p>now i'm looking for more diverse blogs i can add to my RSS reader.</p><p>i'm mainly interested in technology, the web, design, literature (especially sci-fi, fantasy, and horror), video games, and music. but i'd be happy to follow anything that's well-written and interesting.</p><p>any suggestions, Fediverse?</p><p><a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/rss\">#<span>rss</span></a> <a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a></p>",
        "text": "i follow a ton of blogs via my RSS reader, but i noticed that most of those blogs are written by (a) men and (b) from Western countries, mostly the US and UK.now i'm looking for more diverse blogs i can add to my RSS reader.i'm mainly interested in technology, the web, design, literature (especially sci-fi, fantasy, and horror), video games, and music. but i'd be happy to follow anything that's well-written and interesting.any suggestions, Fediverse?#blog #indieweb #rss #web"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-12T13:59:16+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39158153",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

Engage a Wider Audience With ActivityPub on WordPress.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2023-10-11T18:57:36+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2023/engage-a-wider-audience-with-activitypub-on-wordpresscom",
    "category": [
        "Technology"
    ],
    "bookmark-of": [
        "https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/"
    ],
    "name": "Engage a Wider Audience With ActivityPub on WordPress.com",
    "content": {
        "text": "Every hosted WordPress site - millions and millions of sites - can now be first-class members of the fediverse. This is a huge deal that has the potential to change the whole web. #Technology",
        "html": "<p>Every hosted WordPress site - millions and millions of sites - can now be first-class members of the fediverse. This is a huge deal that has the potential to change the whole web. <a href=\"https://werd.io/tag/Technology\" class=\"p-category\">#Technology</a></p>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Ben Werdmuller",
        "url": "https://werd.io/profile/benwerd",
        "photo": "https://werd.io/file/5d388c5fb16ea14aac640912/thumb.jpg"
    },
    "post-type": "bookmark",
    "_id": "39150917",
    "_source": "191",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Manton Reece",
        "url": "https://www.manton.org/",
        "photo": "https://micro.blog/manton/avatar.jpg"
    },
    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2023/10/11/great-to-see.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Great to see <a href=\"https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/\">WordPress.com\u2019s support for ActivityPub</a>. Following WordPress blogs from Micro.blog looks good, although @-mentioning Micro.blog from within WordPress isn\u2019t working for me. I\u2019ve been testing and reviewing the code, will make any tweaks I can so everything is compatible.</p>",
        "text": "Great to see WordPress.com\u2019s support for ActivityPub. Following WordPress blogs from Micro.blog looks good, although @-mentioning Micro.blog from within WordPress isn\u2019t working for me. I\u2019ve been testing and reviewing the code, will make any tweaks I can so everything is compatible."
    },
    "published": "2023-10-11T14:43:43-05:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39150755",
    "_source": "12",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@nhoizey",
        "url": "https://mamot.fr/@nhoizey",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mamot.fr/@nhoizey/111216662760893190",
    "content": {
        "html": "Screenshot of The Indieweb privacy challenge (Webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR)",
        "text": "Screenshot of The Indieweb privacy challenge (Webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR)"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-11T13:39:57+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39147375",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@nhoizey",
        "url": "https://mamot.fr/@nhoizey",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mamot.fr/@nhoizey/111215246907956498",
    "content": {
        "html": "Screenshot of The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions",
        "text": "Screenshot of The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-11T07:39:53+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39145465",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@chocolatefossty",
        "url": "https://im-in.space/@chocolatefossty",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://im-in.space/@chocolatefossty/111212044077573219",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I don't get <a href=\"https://im-in.space/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a>.  It seems like <a href=\"https://im-in.space/tags/ActivityPub\">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> but with a different name and reliant on cloud services.</p>",
        "text": "I don't get #IndieWeb.  It seems like #ActivityPub but with a different name and reliant on cloud services."
    },
    "published": "2023-10-10T18:05:21+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39140704",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@tagout77",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/@tagout77",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@tagout77/111211904772249353",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Rebuilding my website from <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/hugo\">#<span>hugo</span></a> to <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/wordpress\">#<span>wordpress</span></a> for better <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> compatibility and i realize I hate php.</p>",
        "text": "Rebuilding my website from #hugo to #wordpress for better #indieweb compatibility and i realize I hate php."
    },
    "published": "2023-10-10T17:29:56+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39140705",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.ciccarello.me/blog/2023/09/30/after-the-rain/",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>After the Rain</p><p>IndieWeb Carnival: My Kind Of Weather</p><p><a href=\"https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.ciccarello.me/blog/2023/09/30/after-the-rain/\"><span>https://</span><span>fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.cicc</span><span>arello.me/blog/2023/09/30/after-the-rain/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "After the RainIndieWeb Carnival: My Kind Of Weatherhttps://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.ciccarello.me/blog/2023/09/30/after-the-rain/"
    },
    "published": "2023-09-30T15:53:02+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39140706",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@rubenwardy",
        "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@rubenwardy",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@rubenwardy/111211802862435232",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>New blog post: I have joined the <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2023/10/10/hello-indieweb/\"><span>https://</span><span>blog.rubenwardy.com/2023/10/10</span><span>/hello-indieweb/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a></p>",
        "text": "New blog post: I have joined the #IndieWebhttps://blog.rubenwardy.com/2023/10/10/hello-indieweb/#blog #webdev"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-10T17:04:01+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39140707",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@tchambers",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@tchambers",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/111211506784545724",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas\">@<span>iftas</span></a></span> </p><p>Realy good data here. Was happy to contribute my info from running <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a>.social</p>",
        "text": "@iftas Realy good data here. Was happy to contribute my info from running #Indieweb.social"
    },
    "published": "2023-10-10T15:48:43+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39139507",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@xandra",
        "url": "https://tilde.zone/@xandra",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://tilde.zone/@xandra/111209519497071133",
    "content": {
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Threats against ActivityPub

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    "author": {
        "name": "Manton Reece",
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    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2023/10/09/threats-against-activitypub.html",
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        "html": "<p>Evan Prodromou had <a href=\"https://evanp.me/2023/10/06/activitypub-the-socialcg-and-the-social-web/\">an important post a few days ago</a>, arguing for backwards compatibility with future ActivityPub work and discouraging competing protocols. I found some things to agree with in his post, but I\u2019m less certain that there is a single path forward. On Bluesky and others, Evan writes:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We get exponential growth based on having one protocol, not a half dozen. I think Blue Sky, Nostr, and others are a threat to ActivityPub breaking out and becoming ubiquitous. There can\u2019t be multiple winners. I often reference <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe's_Law\">Metcalfe\u2019s Law</a> in this regard; one big connected internetwork is much better than 3 or 4 disconnected ones.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Maybe. But the web has always been more muddled than that. We have multiple feed formats, like RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed, and it\u2019s okay. We have multiple blog APIs, like MetaWeblog, AtomPub, and Micropub, and it\u2019s okay. We have multiple social web notification mechanisms, like ActivityPub, WebSub, and Webmention, and it\u2019s okay.</p>\n<p>What makes it all work is that <em>the web</em> is the network. The fediverse is one aspect of that network. If we go too far elevating the fediverse as the only ubiquitous network, it risks disconnecting it from the blogosphere (!) and the rest of the web. Already I\u2019d argue that some Mastodon decisions have isolated the platform, such as loading content via JavaScript so there are no longer basic HTML web pages for post permalinks.</p>\n<p>ActivityPub is a huge success story. Yet there are still good ideas to pull from competing protocols. For example:</p>\n<ul><li>Bluesky is using domain names for user identity. I\u2019d love to see the fediverse adopt this in addition to email-style identifiers.</li>\n<li>Nostr is less verbose than ActivityPub. I\u2019d love to see cleaner ActivityPub responses without JSON-LD.</li>\n</ul><p>If we never let other protocols get off the ground, there would be fewer experiments to help push ActivityPub along. It\u2019s also curious that with Mastodon so well established, Bluesky recently hit 1 million users as an invite-only beta. How? Answering that may help Mastodon and ActivityPub adoption too.</p>",
        "text": "Evan Prodromou had an important post a few days ago, arguing for backwards compatibility with future ActivityPub work and discouraging competing protocols. I found some things to agree with in his post, but I\u2019m less certain that there is a single path forward. On Bluesky and others, Evan writes:\n\nWe get exponential growth based on having one protocol, not a half dozen. I think Blue Sky, Nostr, and others are a threat to ActivityPub breaking out and becoming ubiquitous. There can\u2019t be multiple winners. I often reference Metcalfe\u2019s Law in this regard; one big connected internetwork is much better than 3 or 4 disconnected ones.\n\nMaybe. But the web has always been more muddled than that. We have multiple feed formats, like RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed, and it\u2019s okay. We have multiple blog APIs, like MetaWeblog, AtomPub, and Micropub, and it\u2019s okay. We have multiple social web notification mechanisms, like ActivityPub, WebSub, and Webmention, and it\u2019s okay.\nWhat makes it all work is that the web is the network. The fediverse is one aspect of that network. If we go too far elevating the fediverse as the only ubiquitous network, it risks disconnecting it from the blogosphere (!) and the rest of the web. Already I\u2019d argue that some Mastodon decisions have isolated the platform, such as loading content via JavaScript so there are no longer basic HTML web pages for post permalinks.\nActivityPub is a huge success story. Yet there are still good ideas to pull from competing protocols. For example:\nBluesky is using domain names for user identity. I\u2019d love to see the fediverse adopt this in addition to email-style identifiers.\nNostr is less verbose than ActivityPub. I\u2019d love to see cleaner ActivityPub responses without JSON-LD.\nIf we never let other protocols get off the ground, there would be fewer experiments to help push ActivityPub along. It\u2019s also curious that with Mastodon so well established, Bluesky recently hit 1 million users as an invite-only beta. How? Answering that may help Mastodon and ActivityPub adoption too."
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